[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#705493: Bug#705493: Bug#705493: Bug#705493: closed by YunQiang Su <wzssyqa at gmail.com> (Re: Bug#705493: hi)

[Toni Mueller]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 12:35:58AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Anyway, Toni is using extremely convoluted script from .bashrc.
> That is too late to set up im-config and should not work.

I have to disagree with this. The script is not convoluted (explanation
below), and I launch it from .bash_profile, not .bashrc, so it runs well
before anything using any input method (eg. X11) has been started.

Now, what the script does:

1. It asks a question as to which one of the three input methods scim,
ibus or fcitx I want to use for this session. This has become necessary
as I have experienced major breakage with all of them, but fortunately
not simultanously.

2. It sets the corresponding environment variables up and exports them
to the calling shell (ie, persists them in my login environment, so they
are available to all programs). This may not be as elegant as it could
be, but it works, and I was in a hurry. Will probably clean it up later.

3. It runs im-config to create any other settings that might be
relevant.


The latter two parts take the previously selected input method into
account, so if I want to use, say, fcitx for this login session,
everything gets set up to use fcitx.

I run X11 only *after* all of that, and therefore can't undestand that
the environment variables might not set up when a program starts.

> "im-config -n" should be run before
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70im-config_launch X start up script if it is used
> in the way he uses.

It certainly is - but I did not investigate whether I run this script
you mention, as I start my X11 session using "startx" (eg., no graphical
login on my computer). If I run it, it must be a side-effect of running
"startx".


Kind regards,
--Toni++