Fcitx5-pinyin can't be activated for wps linux.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Ubuntu 20.10, I've installed the wps using the package downloaded from <https://wdl1.pcfg.cache.wpscdn.com/wpsdl/wpsoffice/download/linux/9719/wps-office_11.1.0.9719.XA_amd64.deb>. But I find that the fcitx5-pinyin can't be activated from within it, but this problem doesn't occur in libreoffice.

Any hints for this problem will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

HY

[Weng Xuetian]

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps
should work.

I asked wps to update but it seems that they haven't take any action yet.

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[Hongyi Zhao]

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83#issuecomment-749339993

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:10:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps
should work.

Thanks a lot, it does the trick.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 1:04:44 PM UTC+8 Hongyi Zhao wrote:

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:10:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps
should work.

For my case, based on my tries, both of the following can do the trick:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

But I still can't figure out why the following methods can't fix the problem:

$ GTK_IM_MODULE=xim wps

$ GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

Regards,

HY

[Weng Xuetian]

Because wps is based on Qt.

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[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 1:15:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

Because wps is based on Qt.

Got it. Thanks a lot.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:10:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

Why other applications, say, web browser like Chrome or Firefox, don't have this problem?

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:10:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps
should work.

Based on my tries, on Ubuntu 20.10, either of the following methods will do the trick:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

But on Ubuntu 20.04, only the following works:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

Any hints for this phenomenon?

Regards,

HY

[Weng Xuetian]

Because they are open source and built against the system's gtk/qt,
they can use the system's im module.
Applications like wps usually come with their own Gtk/Qt library,
which could only use its own im module coming with it.

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[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 3:16:00 PM UTC+8 Hongyi Zhao wrote:

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 12:10:43 PM UTC+8 CS Slayer wrote:

FYI: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83
wps ship their own fcitx im module, which only support fcitx 4. So you
may only use xim, or ibus im module with wps.

QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps
should work.

Based on my tries, on Ubuntu 20.10, either of the following methods will do the trick:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=xim wps

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

But on Ubuntu 20.04, only the following works:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus wps

Any hints for this phenomenon?

It seems the correct environment variables should be set as below:

$ QT_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx wps
$ QT_IM_MODULE=xim XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx wps

Based on tries, both of the above settings work.

But for gedit using with root, only the following form can trigger the fcitx5-pinyin:

$ sudo GTK_IM_MODULE=xim XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx gedit

The following will fail to activate the fcitx5-pinyin:

$ sudo GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx gedit