ibus (Chinese) input cannot work in firefox

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Hi, I am using ibus for multi-language input control: (I installed ibus ibus-pinyin and ibus-gtk and run ibus-deamon on startup)

sudo apt install ibus ibus-gtk ibus-pinyin
ibus-daemon -drx

I found my ibus can work in ROXTerm and leafpad while it does not work in firefox or geany, does any knows how to fix this?

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Try installing ibus-gtk3 also. You probably need ibus-data as well. Restart your session and try it.

btw ibus-pinyin is deprecated according to the package description, and you should use ibus-libpinyin instead.

• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by afghan.

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Perhaps you have to install some fonts?

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anticapitalista wrote:

Perhaps you have to install some fonts?

I think fonts doesn’t matter. The basic fonts should show the appropriate character for the corresponding input method selected.

A few months ago ibus-gtk3 (for GTK3 apps) clashed with ibus-gtk (for GTK2 apps). Only ibus-gtk worked. Now it seems things has changed and you need ibus-gtk3 for some apps. They can both be installed to support various apps. I suppose it depends on whether the app was built with GTK2 or GTK3 libraries.

Apps like Geany shows that it uses GTK+ which is actually GTK3. Other apps that says GTK means that it’s actually using GTK2. One of those numbering/versioning schemes that nobody could agree on I suppose.

ありがとうございます。谢谢。

• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by afghan.
• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by afghan.

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@afghan’s solution fixed my problem correctly! Thanks a lot!

In sum I installed ibus, ibus-gtk3, ibus-libpinyin, ibus-data (and removed ibus-gtk, ibus-pinyin) As a result ibus works everywhere: firefox, thunderbird, geany etc.

$ sudo apt list --installed | grep "ibus-gtk"
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
ibus-gtk3/stable,now 1.5.23-2 amd64 [installed]
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep "ibus-gtk3"
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
ibus-gtk3/stable,now 1.5.23-2 amd64 [installed]
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep "ibus-data"
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
ibus-data/stable,stable,now 1.5.23-2 all [installed]
yerong@yerong:~/Documents
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep "ibus-libpinyin"
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
ibus-libpinyin/stable,now 1.12.0-3 amd64 [installed]
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep "ibus-pinyin"
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

afghan wrote:

Try installing ibus-gtk3 also. You probably need ibus-data as well. Restart your session and try it.

btw ibus-pinyin is deprecated according to the package description, and you should use ibus-libpinyin instead.

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I did not install any fonts. I only installed

ibus
ibus-gtk3
ibus-libpinyin
ibus-data

anticapitalista wrote:

Perhaps you have to install some fonts?

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