@Ikuya: I found that gnome-settings-daemon 3.18, which is in the Xenial archive, also overrides those two variables. So my guess is that you had 3.20 on your Xenial installation. (If not, this is still a mystery.)
Anyway, I prepared merge proposals for gnome-session (Yakkety and Xenial), and attached a Xenial patch for gnome-settings-daemon. ** Patch added: "gnome-settings-daemon_no-im-override.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1594681/+attachment/4720456/+files/gnome-settings-daemon_no-im-override.patch ** Description changed: - Currently these variable settings are hardcoded in gnome-session: + [Impact] + + Currently these variable settings are hardcoded in gnome-session and + gnome-settings-daemon: QT_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus That way the use of alternative IM frameworks, for instance fcitx, is - prevented. gnome-session should drop those variable assignments, and - rely on im-config instead. + prevented. The variables should only be set if they are empty, so the + values set by im-config are honored. + + [Test Case] + + * Install Ubuntu GNOME + * Install fcitx + * Set fcitx as the input method: + im-config -n fcitx + * Relogin + * Check the IM-related environment variables: + env | grep -E '_IM|XMOD' + + After the proposed uploads of gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon, + those variables are consistently (unlike before) set to "fcitx". + + [Regression Potential] + + Low. im-config sets "ibus" by default in Ubuntu GNOME anyway. This + change prevents an inconsistent input method configuration for users who + have actively chosen some other IM framework. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1594681 Title: Don't override IM variables To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-session/+bug/1594681/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
