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From: | Luis Felipe López Acevedo |
Subject: | Re: Typing on GuixSD in languages other than English |
Date: | Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:36:30 -0500 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.0.6 |
On 2016-04-04 00:37, Chris Marusich wrote:
Luis Felipe López Acevedo <address@hidden> writes:Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes: The attached patches add anthy and ibus-anthy. They build OK. However, Japanese input is not yet working for me. In fact, ibus itself does not seem to be working at all. How can I verify that ibus is working on its own? I've tried installingibus by itself into my profile. When I do this, I can run ibus-setup,and I see a "Japanese" language input option. This is true even when anthy and ibus-anthy are not installed, which surprised me. I had expected to find no Japanese language input options at all in ibus-setup when anthy and ibus-anthy are not installed.In GNOME, there is no ibus menu visible anywhere on my screen, so it is unclear whether ibus is actually working. When I open Gedit and press<Super>+Space, my input method does not seem to change. According to ibus-setup, this hotkey should change my input method. However, it seems like ibus is just not working at all.FWIW, this is what I do on Debian 8 (with GNOME SHELL): - Install ibus, ibus-anthy (or ibus-mozc). - Restart the system. - Go to *System settings → Region & Language*. - Add *Japanese (Anthy)* in Input method."Japanese (Anthy)" does not show up as an input method. There are avariety of entries (which are present regardless of whether ibus, anthy,or ibus-anthy are installed), and none of them mention "Anthy".
Hmm, then it seems there is something missing. I just follow the steps in a different Debian machine and this is what you should see:
https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/gnome-shell-language-region-input-source-1.png https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/gnome-shell-language-region-input-source-2.png
After this, you should see the language icon in the top-right corner of the desktop. For example, if your current keyboard layout is English, you'll see the *en* language code with a little triangle to the right. Click there or use Super+Space to alternate between languages.When I select one of the Japanese language input methods via the abovemethod (e.g., the one that's just called "Japanese"), I do in fact see alittle icon in the upper right that I can toggle between "en" and "ja" using <Super>+Space. However, this just seems to shuffle around the keymap for my keyboard. It does not actually let me input any kana or convert anything into kanji.
Yeah, something is not working well then. When you follow the steps above, and use Super+Space, the language indicator should eventually change to an A in hiragana. Then you should just be able to start writing Japanese as in this screenshot:
https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/gnome-shell-japanese-anthy.png
And thank you very mucho for the patches, I'm going to need Anthy when I install GuixSD :)I hope we can get it working! Thank you for your assistance.
Another thing to have into account when writing with non-roman alphabets using ibus is that you need to install ibus modules/bridges for the different GUI toolkits used by the applications you utilize. So you need ibus-gtk, ibus-qt, etc.
-- Luis Felipe López Acevedo
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