On 2018-10-07 at 21:25:36-0500, Caleb Ristvedt wrote: > On installing ibus and ibus-libpinyin and ensuring > the appropriate environment variables were applied, > I attempted to run ibus-setup. I went to the "Input Method" section > and added the "Chinese - Intelligent Pinyin" method. At that point > ibus-setup output this message: > > dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > ca.desrt.dconf was not provided by any .service files > > Restarting ibus-setup showed that the changes had not stuck > (if they ever were even applied). The problem persisted > until I installed dconf into my profile, at which point it worked > as expected.
I can still reproduce this issue and workaround. On 2018-10-07 at 21:25:36-0500, Caleb Ristvedt wrote: > It seems Nix has encountered this problem as well: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11108 > > I believe this would be fixed by changing dconf from a regular input > to a propagated-input of ibus. Note that ibus-setup needs to be run > in order to add *any* input method, including, say, English. Should ibus-setup be patched accordingly?
