Bug 532731

Summary:	imsettings configuration executed several times during a login
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marko Myllynen <myllynen>
Component:	imsettings	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Marko Myllynen 2009-11-03 16:33:59 UTC

[Reporting this after a discussion with Jens over IRC]

Description of problem:
While investigating bug 505100 it was noticed that if one puts a simple "echo none.conf >> /tmp/foo" into /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none.conf and no Input Method is in use it gets printed 5 times if ~/.xinputrc is a symbolic link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none.conf and 10 times if no ~/.xinputrc exist (i.e., the default). Is this intentional?

Also, GTK_IM_MODULE=xim setting does not seem to propagate into the user environment in terminals while other settings like QT_IM_MODULE. Nevertheless XIM seems to be in use even without it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora Rawhide as of 2009-11-03

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2009-11-04 02:50:25 UTC

It's not a bug. it's being read when imsettings-daemon:

 1. starts monitoring on /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d to provide the information certainly if the request is being attempted before receiving any events from the monitor.
 2. starts monitoring on /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc.
 3. gets any events from the monitor on /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d
 4. gets any events from the monitor on /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc
 5. reads the system default configuration.

(In reply to comment #0)
> Also, GTK_IM_MODULE=xim setting does not seem to propagate into the user
> environment in terminals while other settings like QT_IM_MODULE. Nevertheless
> XIM seems to be in use even without it.

It's also not a bug on the certain desktop like GNOME and XFCE. the IM configuration will be sent to the GTK+ applications through XSETTINGS. no need to set up GTK_IM_MODULE for them.