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IBus is a modern input method framework that shipped with Ubuntu/Fedora by default.

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KDE: how to get rid of IBus keyboard selector

Please, how to get rid of IBus service/IBus panel when running KDE? This Gnome(?) keyboard layout manager (?) can get into conflict with the layout set natively in KDE Settings. I need to switch often between CZ and UK keyboard and IBus makes it…
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Where is config file of ibus stored?

I'm wondering where is the config file of ibus stored? I checked ~/.config/ibus, and there's only a dbus socket. And no ~/.ibus folder available.
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Is there a way to reload the .XCompose file in Fedora?

I am currently custumizing my .XCompose file in Fedora 29 Workstation (with the default GNOME 3, Wayland, etc). It seems that it does follow the rules I add to the ~/.XCompose file, but if I make changes to it then they are only noticed after I log…
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Type Hungarian special alphabets on Debian, ibus

I am Vietnamese, I use ibus to type Vietnamese on my Debian. I just started to learn Hungarian and I need to type some Hungarian characters which I can't type with ibus-unikey, like ë, ö, ő, ü or ű. Other characters like á, ó,... I can type with no…
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KDE: how to get rid of IBus sys tray icon and keep Zoom

This is a variant of this question. But the provided answers either don't seem to work or would entail not being able to have Zoom (cf below). Situation: I run Kubuntu 21.04 with KDE Plasma 5.21.4 Zoom requires IBus. I have Zoom and I need it. IBus…
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Ctrl-Enter, Shift-Enter and Enter are interpreted as the same key

I'm using Fedora 30 with KDE and am trying to bind (Zsh) autosuggest-execute to Ctrl+Enter for convenience. I'm trying to get it to work in gnome-terminal. However I discovered that showkey -a always returns ^M in these three cases: Enter,…
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How can I use ~/.XCompose with IBus and KDE plasma (on NixOS)

I want to use IBus with libpinyin on my NixOS install with KDE plasma. IBus is installed and works fine, with the following config in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix # use IBus for input i18n.inputMethod = { enabled = "ibus"; ibus.engines =…
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XKB: enable a LED for specific layout

There's a widely used XKB option grp_led:scroll to light ScrollLock LED for cycling between layouts. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with ibus ATM because the implementation makes XKB consider every layout as a primary. There's a bug indicating it…
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How can I enable ibus's input popup?

I'm trying to get ibus's popup selection to work. I followed the instructions in the Arch wiki, by installing the ibus and ibus-libpinyin packages. ibus appears to partially work. ibus-setup works fine, and I can select inputs. In my text editor, I…
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In Fedora, how do I turn off the automatic dictionary suggestions?

I just installed Fedora 19 in VirtualBox using an image from virtualboxes.org. It suggests words from a dictionary wherever I type. It's slow and it won't let me type what I want, since it automatically inserts the topmost dictionary…
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Trying to add the Latin American Spanish keyboard layout on IBus for Debian Bulleye in MATE, but I only get Spaniard Spanish

I am running Debian 11 Bullseye for AMD64 on an HP Pavillion Touch 14-N009LA laptop, using IBus and MATE as desktop environment, having upgraded recently from Buster. Prior to upgrading point release, I could use the Latin American keyboard layout…
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No module named 'gi' when running ibus-setup

I am trying to run ibus-setup and getting the following $ ibus-setup Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 31, in from gi.repository import GLib ImportError: No module named 'gi' Neigther of…
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Getting Ibus working with tiling window manager

I am wanting to get the Ibus IME (Anthy engine for Japanese input) working in all my window managers. Unity is fine, along with Compiz and Metacity. But the one I really want to get it working with is spectrwm (a tiling window manager - i3m, xmonad…
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How to swap the Ctrl and Alt keys in ibus?

I swapped both sides of Ctrl and Alt using xmodmap. It is quite convenient to use Ctrl keys in Emacs, Emacs uses Ctrl key a lot. However, when I start ibus, the xmodmap stops working. I googled and figure out that: ibus overrides the settings in…
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MX Linux, Xfce: ibus doesn't work

I installed ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3. I also installed ibus-unikey and ibus-bamboo, which are packages required for typing in Vietnamese. I added the following lines in ~/.bashrc export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export…
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