Bug 606194 – alt+X hotkey stopped working in vte based terminal emulators

Bug 606194 - alt+X hotkey stopped working in vte based terminal emulators

Summary:	alt+X hotkey stopped working in vte based terminal emulators

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	ibus (Show other bugs)
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Version:	13
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Peng Huang
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Reported:	2010-06-21 01:12 EDT by Takehiko Abe
Modified:	2010-06-22 01:15 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-06-21 20:28:22 EDT
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Description Takehiko Abe 2010-06-21 01:12:40 EDT

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
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|     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 2010-06-21 20:28:22 EDT

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 01:15:25 EDT

Thanks for the information on the environment variables. I think they need to be
documented in the ibus README.

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