Use im-config on Wayland without uninstalling IBus
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| im-config (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| Focal |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Bug Description
[Impact]
In a Wayland session on Ubuntu 20.04 im-config does not work as intended. To be able to use a non-IBus IM framework you basically need to first uninstall ibus (or 'fake uninstall' by renaming /usr/bin/
This was fixed in im-config 0.45-1, and the proposed upload includes a patch with a cherry picked Debian commit.
[Test case]
* Install fcitx and fcitx-libpinyin
* Open Language Support and switch to fcitx
* Reboot and log in to a Wayland session
* Open the fcitx preferences and add fcitx-libpinyin
* Switch to fcitx-libpinyin and confirm that you can input
Chinese
[Regression risk]
A similar method for making im-config work with Wayland was used in Ubuntu 17.10, which was shipped with Wayland as default. Since the approach has already been used without reported issues, the regression risk now should be low.
| Changed in im-config (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in im-config (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote Please test proposed package | #1 |
| Changed in im-config (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| tags: | added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal |
| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #2 |
| tags: |
added: verification-done verification-done-focal removed: verification-needed verification-needed-focal |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in im-config (Ubuntu Focal): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote Update Released | #4 |
Hello Gunnar, or anyone else affected,
Accepted im-config into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/
N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.