Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Guix, > > I've reconfigured my system with Sway and I noticed that GTK4 > applications now ignore my input method. GTK3 applications and Emacs > still work fine. > > GTK4 applications used to work with IBus under Gnome, so I'm guessing > that some more configuration is required to make this work... Does > anyone have an idea what might be missing? > > FWIW, I find the configuration rather confusing. Our Cookbook doesn't > contain a working example for using Sway (which is surprising given its > popularity among Guix and Nix users), and whatever the reference manual > mentions when it comes to Sway appears to be unnecessary or overly > complicated (such as the configuration of greetd, which required the > removal of other services). > > I still haven't arrived at a comfortable system configuration (GDM still > starts up even though I've removed it from my configuration; only > elogind remains), but the input method problem with GTK4 applications is > the most pressing issue at this time. > > I'd be happy for any hints! I do not think I am using any GTK 4 applications (what would be some light example I could test?), but I wonder whether you need to set GTK_PATH (probably via GUIX_GTK4_PATH) to something to allow it to find the im modules. Would it be possible to check whether Gnome sets it? I see for GTK 2 and 3 we have GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE and GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE, there is none for GTK 4 though. So maybe I am wrong and the auto-discovery should just work for 4. However it looks like we *are* building the im module in ibus: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ ls $(guix build ibus | tail -n1)/lib/gtk-4.0/4.0.0/immodules libim-ibus.la libim-ibus.so --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Hope this helps, Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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