On 2023-10-26 23:51, brian m. carlson wrote:
I have a system with Zoom installed, which necessitates installing ibus, which I don't want to use (because it overrides my shortcut keys without consent). Thus, the advice I've received is to install im-config and use to set the module to "xim".
That's bad advice. Where did you get it?Don't set it to "xim", set it to "none" instead, which means that im-config does not touch any environment variables (and does not launch ibus-daemon).
im-config -n none
I don't think, given that GTK+ 4 is used for a wide variety of software in Debian, that it's safe to set GTK_IM_MODULE to "xim" anymore, and im-config needs to not do that.
Your observation is not a sufficient reason to conclude that "xim" is never useful and should be removed as an option. im-config does not set that option automatically, but only if the user chooses it explicitly. In your case due to a bad advice. ;)
So I'm inclined to close this bug as a "wontfix", but await possible further input on the matter.
-- Cheers, Gunnar Hjalmarsson