Bug 555022

OK, this is funny. Or not.

My further tinkering with EMACS and ibus revealed the following pattern of the bug's occurrence. If I start EMACS from a terminal emulator, everything works fine; if EMACS is started from xfrun4 (XFCE's app launcher), then the bug is reproduced.

I'm confused. Now we have a third possible offending component i.e. the XFCE4 libraries. What should I do?

Please make sure if you can see "XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus" in $HOME/.imsettings.log.

also try to find out from /proc/<pid>/environ if the process has the certain XMODIFIERS.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please make sure if you can see "XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus" in
> $HOME/.imsettings.log.
> 
> also try to find out from /proc/<pid>/environ if the process has the certain
> XMODIFIERS.    

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Just checked, that the line "XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus" was present in my .imsettings.log file.

I also followed your advice of checking the environment variables. The EMACS process created from a shell had XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus in its list of environment variables, but the process created from xfrun4 did not have such a variable (along with other missing variables, e.g. IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP and IMSETTINGS_MODULE).

Hope that helps.

BTW: Other programs started by xfrun4 don't have XMODIFIERS environ. variable either, but the normal functionality of ibus with them is not affected by the absence of such a varialbe.

Well, because xfrun4 is raised through DBus and it doesn't inherit any environment variables the desktop has. guess nothing I can do in imsettings because imsettings can't run prior to the session bus since it also requires DBus.

Reassigning to xfce-utils.

Added upstream bug here.

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This is still present in even rawhide.

Sorry this has lingered around so long. 

From what I have read, this should be fixed in the upcoming 4.8 release. 

"The environment variables of commands launched from the Xfce run dialog were not set
properly, so we fixed that so that commands launched from the dialog
always inherit the environment of the Xfce session. "

We can test this as soon as we land 4.7.x in rawhide. 
Thanks for your patience.

This should be fixed in rawhide. Can anyone confirm?

Yes, it looks good to me now. thanks!