I see..., thank you anyway! I wonder if we can collect of this kind of usability tips in wiki-like systems somewhere so we don't have to keep digging google for information. 😃
I am very excited about Guix - I switched from Nix and I am not going back! -Yasu On Sat, 2020-11-07 at 16:41 +0800, å®‹æ–‡æ¦ wrote: > yasu <y...@yasuaki.com> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > After installing packages ibus and ibus-anthy , I thought I would > > be able to type Japanese - but I had to follow the tip below and > > manually add these variables to make it work. > > Would this be considered a bug? > > Yes, guix lack supports for input methods. > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg08282.html > > > > export GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk- > > 2.0/2.10.0/immodules-gtk2.cache" > > export GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gtk- > > 3.0/3.0.0/immodules-gtk3.cache" > > > > For these kind of environment variables, we usually set them in > '.guix-profile/etc/profile' via 'native-search-paths' of a package. > > But adding 'GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE' to the 'native-search-paths' of > 'gtk+' is not good enough or won't solve this issue as we usually > don't > install 'gtk+' into the profile. I'd like to find another way set > them, > could be add some code to '(guix profiles)' with the 'gtk-im-modules' > profile hook. Need more thinking... > > > In the meantime, we have to set those environment variables > manually..
