I’ve tried using ibus and fcitx with firefox, vscode, slack, libreoffice. None of them works.
There are no (relevant) security policy denials ($ sudo journalctl --follow | grep audit returns nothing)
I’m using ubuntu budgie 18.04. I had one of my friends try it with ubuntu 16.04 LTS but it seems it doesn’t work either.
Anyone know what the problem is?
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Sure, we’ll take a look.
@willcooke - fyi, I was working on enabling support for an unrelated feature in the peek snap and noticed when I started it:
Cannot load module /snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so: GModule (/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so does not export GTK+ IM module API: GModule (/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
Cannot load module /snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ibus.so: GModule (/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ibus.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ibus.so does not export GTK+ IM module API: GModule (/snap/peek/x1/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-ibus.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
Relevant details:
$ snap version
snap 2.32+18.04~pre6
snapd 2.32+18.04~pre6
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-13-generic
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Developer Notes
core 16-2.31.2 4206 stable canonical core
gnome-3-26-1604 3.26.0 53 stable canonical -
peek 1.2.2+git7.0cbdd30 x1 - - -
$ snap interfaces peek
Slot Plug
:desktop peek
:gsettings peek
:home peek
:unity7 peek
:wayland peek
:x11 peek
gnome-3-26-1604:gnome-3-26-1604 peek
peek:session-dbus-interface -
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I managed to get ibus working with the chromium snap by doing those two things:
- added ibus-gtk3 to stage-packages
cp $HOME/.config/ibus/bus/* $HOME/snap/chromium/current/.config/ibus/bus/
(this was suggested by comment #3 in bug #1580463)
The same trick works for the firefox snap too (it also needs libibus-1.0-5 in its stage-packages).
This pull request should enable ibus out-of-the-box for snaps that use the desktop-gtk3 helper.
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The PR was merged (thanks @kenvandine!), now snaps that depend on the desktop-gtk3 helper will need to be rebuilt to take advantage of it.
chromium in the candidate channel has now working ibus support (tested with ibus-cangjie), and a build of libreoffice with ibus support is ongoing.
chromium in the stable channel now has working ibus support. Everyone interested, please give it a try and report here whether this works as expected.
libreoffice 6.0.3.2 in the candidate channel now has working ibus support (tested with ibus-cangjie). Everyone interested, please give it a try and report here whether this works as expected.
Can confirm ibus works fine with chromium.
I rebuilt the hexchat snap (which uses the desktop-gtk2 helper) locally and that was enough to enable ibus input.
I am now going to look into support for Qt apps.
This is now merged. Snaps that use the desktop-qt* helpers should now accept ibus input (after being rebuilt to pick up the last change in the desktop helpers).
How about fcitx support for snap apps? I just tested with lastest libreoffice in the ubuntu 18.04 store and it didn’t work
Please add support fcitx
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yep
I tried mailspring and telegram snap app but they cant work with fcitx well
but flatpak apps are working with fcitx well
wish you can solve this problem
thanks
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