Re: [tlug] Best IME for an "i18n power user" on linux?

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Darren,


On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
>> The local ja/en switch, though, is available...
>
> If I run "ibus-setup" from the commandline, a three tab dialog comes up,
> and the Advanced tab has "Global Config", with a checkbox for "Share the
> same input method among all applications".
> I have it unchecked, so it is not working :-)
>
> (Just to be sure, I checked it, did a test, then unchecked again, and
> did a test: it has no effect.)


I did the test with ibus-mozc and not with ibus-anthy.  And it seemed
to work.  However, I just gave it a try when I wrote my last message.
I didn't try it for a very long time...

Just earlier in the week, when I was on ibus-anthy, I had some very
strange things happening.  Literally, I logged in and there was the
IME in the corner.  I wasn't watching it, but after a short time, it
disappeared.  So far, no problems with ibus-mozc.

Quite frankly, my initial motivation was this web page:
http://moritzmolch.com/1453 .  Which says I can get additional symbols
with mozc:  ☎　〠 .  Whoo-hoo!  Of course, I'm not sure if that showed
up on your side...


>> This is Ubuntu 15.04
>
> Which desktop
> (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/ubuntu-mate-1504-download-flavors)
> do you use ? As the IME config screen you showed is very different to
> the one I see, I am now wondering if the problems I'm having might be
> due to xfce and ibus not working together properly?


Ubuntu Gnome.

I also came across this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226211 .  Search for the
term "fallback".  Apparently, having gnome-session-fallback installed
affects things.  That is,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/gnome-session-fallback .  That
package has been removed from 15.04 .  Again, all of this is for
ibus-anthy.

A slightly longer version of my first message in this thread is that I
had one system with ibus-anthy working and the other did not.  I had
them side-by-side last week and went through and fiddled with the
packages on the one where anthy wasn't working.  That included
removing gnome-session-fallback.  During the course of this fiddling,
I must have made a mistake, because the one where it was working had
the IME disappear.  *argh*  So, out of frustration, I went to Google
and found out about ibus-mozc and how great it would be to type 〠 .
So, I gave it a shot and so far, things have worked out...immediately
removed everything with "anthy" in it...  I've since repeated what I
did on 3 Ubuntu 15.04 systems and so far, so good...

Ray