Re: im-config and Wayland
Soubds Great! Thanks.
On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 18:28 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2020-05-18 23:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > On 2020-03-25 03:39, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > 3. Drop wayland/systemd support from im-config and make it for
> > > pure
> > > X system such as fvwm if someone wants. I am not interested
> > > to
> > > maintain after this point. At this stage, im-config shoud not
> > > be installed by default.
> >
> > I have thought about that, and tend to disagree. Even if the GNOME
> > devs
> > ignore non-IBus IM frameworks, that's not enough of a reason to
> > bury the
> > idea with providing a tool to help IM users, who want options, with
> > the
> > configuration.
> >
> > Currently, if you use GNOME on Wayland, you need to uninstall (or
> > fake-uninstall) IBus to be able to use im-config for non-IBus
> > frameworks. That's a rather cumbersome prerequisite.
> >
> > I have submitted a merge request which I think improves it a bit:
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team/im-config/-/merge_requests/5
> >
> > With the proposed change in place, you can use im-config to set the
> > variables also on GNOME on Wayland. The daemon isn't launched,
> > though;
> > you need to do that manually.
>
> Good news. I have made a change to the MR, and if I'm not missing
> anything - cross your fingers - im-config now works without any
> hassle
> both on X and Wayland. No need to uninstall IBus to use a non-IBus
> framework (unless you want to for efficiency reasons, of course).
> The
> final piece of the puzzle was a tiny change to im-launch.desktop
> which I
> overlooked yesterday.
>
> So if nobody objects, I will drop the caveats about GNOME and
> Wayland
> from README.Debian and merge in a few days.
>
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