Bug 1960390

Summary:	Unable to switch to non-ibus input methods
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Huang, Chih-Wei <cwhuang>
Component:	im-chooser	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	35	CC:	ajax, i18n-bugs, ofourdan, peter.hutterer, tagoh
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Description Huang, Chih-Wei 2021-05-13 18:39:57 UTC

Description of problem: Unable to use non-ibus input methods on GNOME

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 33

How reproducible:
Follow the instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/InputMethods

Steps to Reproduce:
1. remove the shortcut keys for Switch to next input source from Keyboard->Shortcuts tab->Typing on gnome-control-center
2. remove all of the input source which is related to ibus (not sure if it's possible?)
3. install im-chooser, imsettings and imsettings-gsettings on f21 or later
4. reboot and login

Actual results:
Unable to use im-chooser, it shows
$ im-chooser 

(im-chooser:2510): libimchooseui-WARNING **: 02:22:23.083: Current desktop isn't supported. Please follow instructions on your desktop to enable Input Method.

(im-chooser:2510): libimchooseui-WARNING **: 02:22:23.083: Current desktop isn't supported. Please follow instructions on your desktop to enable Input Method.


Expected results:
Be able to use im-chooser to switch to another input method, e.g., fcitx5


Additional info:
Unable to remove ibus:

$ sudo dnf remove ibus
Error: 
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: gnome-shell
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

This is also unexpected. In previous Fedora version (e.g. 32) ibus could be removed without such an error.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2021-05-17 02:31:38 UTC

xinput is just a debugging tool not involved in any of this (it's little more than a specialised version of `cat`). Punting to im-chooser since that's where that error message comes from.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2021-05-18 12:28:36 UTC

That warning message says it all. this isn't really new. please ask GNOME upstream for the way of changing the input methods to your favarite one. imsettings just followed that but there are nothing such things anymore. it can't do any help without their support.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2021-08-10 13:02:26 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 35 development cycle.
Changing version to 35.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-11-29 16:57:08 UTC

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Comment 5 Akira TAGOH 2022-12-08 06:38:42 UTC

Again, please ask GNOME upstream to use non-ibus input methods there.