Re: Japanese Input wont't without manually adding environmental variables?

[yasu]

I see..., thank you anyway!

I wonder if we can collect of this kind of usability tips in wiki-like
systems somewhere so we don't have to keep digging google for
information. 😃

I am very excited about Guix - I switched from Nix and I am not going
back!

-Yasu



On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 16:41 +0800, 宋文武 wrote:
> yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > After installing packages ibus and ibus-anthy , I thought I would
> > be able to type Japanese - but I had to follow the tip below and
> > manually add these variables to make it work.
> > Would this be considered a bug? 
> 
> Yes, guix lack supports for input methods.
> 
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg08282.html
> > 
> > export GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-
> > 2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache" 
> > export GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk-
> > 3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache" 
> > 
> 
> For these kind of environment variables, we usually set them in
> '.guix-profile/etc/profile' via 'native-search-paths' of a package.
> 
> But adding 'GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE' to the 'native-search-paths' of
> 'gtk+' is not good enough or won't solve this issue as we usually
> don't
> install 'gtk+' into the profile.  I'd like to find another way set
> them,
> could be add some code to '(guix profiles)' with the 'gtk-im-modules'
> profile hook.  Need more thinking... 
> 
> 
> In the meantime, we have to set those environment variables
> manually..