I hadn't realised that they renamed the IM module with the version bump:
that means snaps built against older platforms won't load the old (but
working) Fcitx 4 module when run on a host system configured with Fcitx
5.
We can certainly look at adding the new IM module to the platform snaps,
but
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 01:27:19AM -, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> It means that it explicitly looks for the fcitx 5 gtk im module, while
> Chromium only has access to the fcitx 4 one.
Oh! Excellent debugging to find the root cause.
Thanks
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I presented the snap problem for James Henstridge, and he gave me a very
useful hint: The Chromium snap makes use of the bionic library stack
(the gnome-3-28-1804 snap) including the im module installed by fcitx-
frontend-gtk3, i.e. the fcitx 4 gtk im module.
That made me think of
