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BuddiesOfBudgie
IBUS Rework
Description
This maybe specific to Debian/Ubuntu - so it could be construed as a FYI as to what I will be adding as a patchset for these distros. Thus please consider carefully - it does need thorough testing on your specific distro since as far as I can gather many distro's patch IBUS stuff in different ways. I don't recall seeing previous issues like this being reported by other distros hence the issues below may be specific to Debian/Ubuntu.
Over the years of budgie-desktop various ubuntu community members (and reproduced on Debian) have reported on occasions that the keyboard layout always defaulted to en_US even if it wasn't installed. Logging in and logging out may resolved. On other occasions various workaround like toggling the gsettings keyboard layouts key seem to resolve for a session.
Additionally various people have reported that ALT+Shift rarely worked as a switch layout key combination.
Finally - the IBUS popup for non-latin languages didn't appear in budgie. We resolved this a while back and have carried the fix as a distro specific patch (the ibus-daemon process needed to be called with different parameters).
This PR reworks budgie's IBUS handling to resolve all of the above.
As a FYI - I will be carrying this as a patchset for 22.10 where the first issue always seems to occur now - at least for me. Various team members and community members are testing this for 22.04 and will likely push this as a stable release update for that series. If demand warrants this I will also consider backporting to 20.04 where these issues have also been reported in the past.
Submitter Checklist
- [X] Squashed commits with
git rebase -i(if needed) - [X] Built budgie-desktop and verified that the patch worked (if needed)
fossfreedom commented on Jul 26
For some layouts such as Japanese, if the user is NOT using a japanese keyboard with the extra keys to change the input mode, the only way to change the input mode (at least that I can find) is to re-enable the system tray icon (via ibus-setup) and change the input mode that way.
I think this problem is only specific to Ubuntu Budgie. Other distros including Debian and Fedora can change the input mode by pressing Shift + Space and/or Ctrl + Space keys besides the system tray icon.
I tested Ubuntu Budgie 22.10. I followed a usual way to introduce IBus-anthy, but the system tray icon did not appear at all, as long as I do not change the following setteing: [System Tools] > [IBus Preferences] > [Imput Method] > [Add] > [日本語] > [Anthy] So it seems that this might be a specific issue only for Ubuntu Budgie.
Best regards.
@usergreen you will need to add the system tray applet to the panel. You then need to enable the tray icon via ibus-settings. Only then will you see the ibus icon.
@fossfreedom As I mentioned above, there is no need to add the system tray applet to the panel in order to enable Japanese input. Of course, ibus tray applet is an available option to add afterwards.
In Ubuntu Budgie, you can switch input method from English to Japanese by Ctrl + j key (or 半／全 key in Japanese keyboard).
What I did to enable Japanese input was only to do the following:
apt install ibus-anthy
as root user and
im-config
as ubuntu-budgie user and choose IBus from the menu.
Then added [System Tools] > [IBus Preferences] > [Imput Method] > [Add] > [日本語] > [Anthy]
The above can be reproduced.
Indeed. You shouldnt (in theory) need ibus preferences at all.
Just use the appropriate keyboard layout in budgie-control-center
For example, for Chinese install ibus and lib-ibus-pinyin logout and login and then choose the intelligent pinyin layout in BCC - keyboard. Logout and login again.
In that case, I suggest to use "uim" (Universal Input Method) instead of IBus. uim + Anthy works fine for me and has no problem. You can test my re-spin ISO image file from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-respin-iso/files/budgie/
Best regards.
Rather than just pointing to an iso please do help with this. Raise a discussion thread and describe what is uim, how you have implemented with it with any hints and tips on setting things such as anthy et al, how you suggest the keyboard applet should flip between layouts I.e. what files/dconf key needs tweaking. Thanks in advance.