Bug 606194 - alt+X hotkey stopped working in vte based terminal emulators
Summary: alt+X hotkey stopped working in vte based terminal emulators
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ibus
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peng Huang
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-21 05:12 UTC by Takehiko Abe
Modified: 2010-06-22 05:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-06-22 00:28:22 UTC
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Description Takehiko Abe 2010-06-21 05:12:40 UTC 
I use alt+space for toggling ibus input method on/off. It stopped
working on vte based terminal emulators (e.g. gnome-terminal, roxterm)
in ibus 1.3.5-2.

git bisect points to:

| commit 7e715146794d5fa5324885f8d1dcebb8805bc31b
| Author: Peng Huang
| Date:   Sat Jun 12 08:53:43 2010 +0800
| 
|     Disable snooper by default.
|

Setting IBUS_SNOOPER_APPS env variable fixed the problem.
But I believe alt+X hotkey should work by default.
Comment 1 Peng Huang 2010-06-22 00:28:22 UTC 
Keyboard SNOOPER is not a normal way to filter key events. It causes some problem applications like browsers. So I disable it by default.

You could use IBUS_SNOOPER_APPS env to enable it for some applications.
For example:
IBUS_SNOOPER_APPS="gnome-terminal,roxterm" or ".*term,apps"
or use
IBUS_SNOOPER=true to enable it for all applications.
Comment 2 Takehiko Abe 2010-06-22 05:15:25 UTC 
Thanks for the information on the environment variables. I think they need to be
documented in the ibus README.
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