Hello. I'm on Debian Wheezy and trying to configure iBus (with Mozc) to use Japanese on an English system.
I have successfully configured all iBus related stuff with apt-getting the packages from the official Deiban Wheezy repository, and can type and use the IME on most applications I have tested, which includes Iceweasel (which is the name for Firefox on Debian).
However, when I download the current stable Firefox from the standard Firefox distribution site (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/) and use that version, I cannot initiate the input method when I type Ctrl+Space. It just gets ignored and I can only type English.
I suspect library incompatibility but not really sure what is involved. Again, other than the difference between Iceweasel provided by Debian and Firefox prebuilt by Mozilla, everything else should be the same. Is there any way that I can get iBus to work with the latest version of Firefox?
On Friday, September 21, 2012 9:02:22 PM UTC-7, Taro Sato wrote:
> Hello. I'm on Debian Wheezy and trying to configure iBus (with Mozc) to > use Japanese on an English system.
> I have successfully configured all iBus related stuff with apt-getting the > packages from the official Deiban Wheezy repository, and can type and use > the IME on most applications I have tested, which includes Iceweasel (which > is the name for Firefox on Debian).
> However, when I download the current stable Firefox from the standard > Firefox distribution site (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/) and > use that version, I cannot initiate the input method when I type > Ctrl+Space. It just gets ignored and I can only type English.
> I suspect library incompatibility but not really sure what is involved. > Again, other than the difference between Iceweasel provided by Debian and > Firefox prebuilt by Mozilla, everything else should be the same. Is there > any way that I can get iBus to work with the latest version of Firefox?
> Thank you for your time, > Taro
Never mind... I could solve this issue by installing the 64-bit version of Firefox (I'm on Debian/Wheezy amd64); I forgot that I accidentally downloaded a 32-bit version. iBus is working totally fine now.
On fedora, there are two packages for ibus-libs. One is for 64-bit and
antoher is for 32-bit.
Installing both of the packages helps me to activate ibus input method
on 32bit application.
You can try if there are same packages on Debian.
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 9:02:22 PM UTC-7, Taro Sato wrote:
>> Hello. I'm on Debian Wheezy and trying to configure iBus (with Mozc) to
>> use Japanese on an English system.
>> I have successfully configured all iBus related stuff with apt-getting the
>> packages from the official Deiban Wheezy repository, and can type and use
>> the IME on most applications I have tested, which includes Iceweasel (which
>> is the name for Firefox on Debian).
>> However, when I download the current stable Firefox from the standard
>> Firefox distribution site (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/) and use
>> that version, I cannot initiate the input method when I type Ctrl+Space. It
>> just gets ignored and I can only type English.
>> I suspect library incompatibility but not really sure what is involved.
>> Again, other than the difference between Iceweasel provided by Debian and
>> Firefox prebuilt by Mozilla, everything else should be the same. Is there
>> any way that I can get iBus to work with the latest version of Firefox?
>> Thank you for your time,
>> Taro
> Never mind... I could solve this issue by installing the 64-bit version of
> Firefox (I'm on Debian/Wheezy amd64); I forgot that I accidentally
> downloaded a 32-bit version. iBus is working totally fine now.
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 6:14:56 PM UTC-7, Daniel Sun wrote:
> Hello Sato-san,
> On fedora, there are two packages for ibus-libs. One is for 64-bit and > antoher is for 32-bit. > Installing both of the packages helps me to activate ibus input method > on 32bit application. > You can try if there are same packages on Debian.
> Thank you.
Daniel -- Thanks for your suggestion. My Debian/Wheezy is actually 64-bit so it would take more effort pulling the 32-bit version of iBus off the repository. Thankfully by now all the web stuff like Flash and browsers work well on 64-bit by now, so I see little reason to go back to 32-bit.
