fcitx5 only works on default application, and cannot work on the third app #384

pplmx · 2021-11-16T13:11:58Z

Describe the bug
I cannot use fcitx5-pinyin on Chrome.

To Reproduce

Typing on Chrome

Expected behavior
Works well on the Chrome.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Desktop: GNOME
Display server type: Wayland
diagnose.log

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

pplmx · 2021-11-16T13:19:05Z

System Info:

uname -a:

Linux Aurora 5.13.0-21-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 19 08:59:28 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 21.10
Release:	21.10
Codename:	impish

lsb_release -d:
```
Description:	Ubuntu 21.10
```

/etc/lsb-release:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=21.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=impish
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 21.10"

/etc/os-release:

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 21.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="21.10"
VERSION="21.10 (Impish Indri)"
VERSION_CODENAME=impish
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=impish

Desktop Environment:

Desktop environment is gnome3.
Bash Version:
```
BASH_VERSION='5.1.8(1)-release'
```

Environment:

DISPLAY:
```
DISPLAY=':0'
```

Keyboard Layout:

setxkbmap:

xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+cn(altgr-pinyin)+us:2+inet(evdev)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

xprop:

_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "cn,us", "altgr-pinyin,", ""

Locale:

All locale:

C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IL
en_IL.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8
zh_SG.utf8

Current locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_NAME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Directories:
1. Home:
```
/home/mystic
```
2. ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}:
  
  Environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set.
  
  Current value of XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config (/home/mystic/.config).
3. Fcitx5 Settings Directory:
  
  Current fcitx5 settings directory is ~/.config/fcitx5 (/home/mystic/.config/fcitx5).
Current user:

The script is run as mystic (1000).

Fcitx State:

executable:

Found fcitx5 at /usr/bin/fcitx5.
version:

Fcitx version: 5.0.5
process:

Found 1 fcitx5 process:
```
  22531 fcitx5
```
fcitx5-remote:

fcitx5-remote works properly.
DBus interface:

Using dbus-send to check dbus.

Owner of DBus name org.fcitx.Fcitx5 is :1.276.

PID of DBus name org.fcitx.Fcitx5 owner is 22531.

Fcitx Configure UI:

Config Tool Wrapper:

Found fcitx5-configtool at /usr/bin/fcitx5-configtool.
Config GUI for qt:

Found fcitx5-config-qt at /usr/bin/fcitx5-config-qt.
Config GUI for kde:

kcmshell5 not found.

Frontends setup:

Xim:

${XMODIFIERS}:

Environment variable XMODIFIERS is "@im=ibus" instead of "@im=fcitx". Please check if you have exported it incorrectly in any of your init files.

Please set environment variable XMODIFIERS to "@im=fcitx" using the tool your distribution provides or add export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx to your ~/.xprofile. See Input Method Related Environment Variables: XMODIFIERS.
If you are using gnome>=3.6, you may want to uninstall ibus or remove ibus-daemon in order to use any input method other than ibus. See Note for GNOME Later than 3.6 for more detail as well as alternative solutions.

Xim Server Name from Environment variable is ibus.
XIM_SERVERS on root window:

Xim server name is the same with that set in the environment variable.

Qt:

qt4 - ${QT4_IM_MODULE}:

Environment variable QT_IM_MODULE is "ibus" instead of "fcitx". Please check if you have exported it incorrectly in any of your init files.
You may have trouble using fcitx in qt4 programs.

Please set environment variable QT_IM_MODULE to "fcitx" using the tool your distribution provides or add export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx to your ~/.xprofile. See Input Method Related Environment Variables: QT_IM_MODULE.
qt5 - ${QT_IM_MODULE}:

Environment variable QT_IM_MODULE is "ibus" instead of "fcitx". Please check if you have exported it incorrectly in any of your init files.
You may have trouble using fcitx in qt5 programs.

Please set environment variable QT_IM_MODULE to "fcitx" using the tool your distribution provides or add export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx to your ~/.xprofile. See Input Method Related Environment Variables: QT_IM_MODULE.
Qt IM module files:

Found fcitx5 qt5 module: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fcitx5/qt5/libfcitx-quickphrase-editor5.so.
Found fcitx5 im module for qt5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx5platforminputcontextplugin.so.
Cannot find fcitx5 input method module for Qt4.

Gtk:

gtk - ${GTK_IM_MODULE}:

Please set environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE to "fcitx" using the tool your distribution provides or add export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx to your ~/.xprofile. See Input Method Related Environment Variables: GTK_IM_MODULE.
gtk-query-immodules:
1. gtk 2:
  
  Cannot find gtk-query-immodules for gtk 2
  
  Cannot find fcitx5 im module for gtk 2.
2. gtk 3:
  
  Cannot find gtk-query-immodules for gtk 3
  
  Cannot find fcitx5 im module for gtk 3.
Gtk IM module cache:
1. gtk 2:
  
  Found immodules cache for gtk 2.24.33 at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache.
  Version Line:
```
# Created by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk2.0-0/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 from gtk+-2.24.33
```
  Failed to find fcitx5 in immodule cache at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache
  
  Cannot find fcitx5 im module for gtk 2 in cache.
2. gtk 3:
  
  Found immodules cache for gtk 3.24.30 at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache.
  Version Line:
```
# Created by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0 from gtk+-3.24.30
```
  Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 3.24.30.
```
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx5.so" 
"fcitx" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
"fcitx5" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
```
3. gtk 4:
  
  Found immodules cache for gtk 4 at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-4.0/4.0.0/immodules/giomodule.cache.
  Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 4.
```
libim-fcitx5.so: gtk-im-module
```
Gtk IM module files:
1. gtk 2:
  
  All found Gtk 2 immodule files exist.
2. gtk 3:
  
  All found Gtk 3 immodule files exist.
3. gtk 4:
  
  All found Gtk 4 immodule files exist.

Configuration:

Fcitx Addons:

Addon Config Dir:

Found fcitx5 addon config directory: /usr/share/fcitx5/addon.

Addon List:

Found 25 enabled addons:

Simplified and Traditional Chinese Translation
Classic User Inteface
Clipboard
Cloud Pinyin
DBus
DBus Frontend
Emoji
Fcitx4 Frontend
Full width character
IBus Frontend
Input method selector
Keyboard
KDE Input Method Panel
Status Notifier
Notification
Pinyin
Extra Pinyin functionality
Punctuation
Quick Phrase
Spell
Unicode
Wayland
Wayland Input method frontend
XCB
X Input Method Frontend

Found 0 disabled addons:

Addon Libraries:

All libraries for all addons are found.
User Interface:

Found 2 enabled user interface addons:
```
Classic User Inteface
KDE Input Method Panel
```

Log:

date:

2021年 11月 16日 星期二 21:14:23 CST

/home/mystic/.config/fcitx5/crash.log:

/crash.log not found.

wengxt · 2021-11-16T17:28:47Z

Are you using chrome + ozone wayland? What's the version of chrome?

pplmx · 2021-11-17T00:10:33Z

Sorry, I don't know ozone.
Chrome: Version 96.0.4664.45 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Other Info:

❯ cat /etc/debian_version
11.0
❯ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 21.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="21.10"
VERSION="21.10 (Impish Indri)"
VERSION_CODENAME=impish
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=impish
❯ uname -a
Linux Aurora 5.13.0-21-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 19 08:59:28 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

wengxt · 2021-11-18T17:21:52Z

Looks like it's just not set environment variable correctly. Just try run im-config and select fcitx 5.

pplmx · 2021-11-23T06:17:44Z

Not work. I have already selected fcitx5. It will work fine from time to time, which is so strange.

pplmx · 2021-11-23T11:09:08Z

Hi, @wengxt
I have tried some cases:

Works fine App

firefox
terminal

Not work fine App

Chrome
typora

My OS default language is English, not Chinese. I just only installed Chinese. Is this the root cause?

wengxt · 2021-11-23T17:43:46Z

typora works for me as a Xwayland application. If you somehow launch chrome and typora in ozone+wayland mode, it might not work.

See
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1183262
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1265118

Also it need to be able to load system gtk library.

wengxt · 2021-11-23T17:45:43Z

Also it really depends on how you install typora and chrome. I don't know if snap version in ubuntu has fcitx support or not. I use the deb version of typora on archlinux and it works fine.

If your typora and chrome is from snap store, I'd suggest you report bug to ubuntu to make them include fcitx im module.

pplmx · 2021-11-26T02:40:44Z

Thank you for your prompt reply.
If I fixed it, I would update it here. :)

pplmx · 2021-11-26T11:06:34Z

Re-install fcitx and fcitx-googlepinyin, it works fine.
So I think it is a fcitx5 issue. Please spend some time investigating it.

yuyichao · 2021-11-26T13:34:02Z

FWIW, if reinstallation makes any difference, it's an issue with the installation and configuration, not fcitx.

wengxt · 2021-11-26T15:19:24Z

Especially when you say "fcitx-googlepinyin", then it's not fcitx5 but fcitx 4?

pplmx · 2021-11-27T02:06:46Z

Yep, I know fcitx4 and fcitx5. I mean that fcitx4 of the same series can be used, but not fcitx5. So I guess fcitx5 caused the failure.

wengxt · 2021-11-27T02:08:33Z

That's more likely to be your configuration issue. I suggest you run fcitx5-diagnose and check after you install it. Mystic ***@***.***>于2021年11月26日周五18:06写道：

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Yep, I know fcitx4 and fcitx5. I mean that fcitx4 of the same series can be used, but not fcitx5. So I guess fcitx5 caused the failure. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#384 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAB7MZA27G76FUJKBMY2KMTUOA4MDANCNFSM5IEHKMFQ> . Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub>.

pplmx · 2021-11-27T02:11:51Z

BTW, fcitx-googlepinyin works by switching the keyboard, not input method.
It seems that the way of switching the input method cannot work on Ubuntu 21.10.
Even if the fcitx5-pinyin can work fine by switching input method, while it only works on default app on Ubuntu 21.10.

razielvamp666 · 2022-07-25T10:26:33Z

Same bug
I have two Inputs:

Japanese + Mozc (Default Group)
Russian (added through input sources of Ubuntu settings window)

I can switch between languages in terminal but (at least) Firefox and Chrome always printing english alpabet instead cyrillic.

Solved problem above by adding startup script to gnome session:

sleep 3 && export layouts=$(/usr/bin/gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources) && /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us')]" && sleep 0.5 && /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "${layouts}"

This script temporarily set only English (US) input source and after that restore original sources. Probably that is not fcitx problem, but this problem didn't appear with iBus

wengxt · 2022-07-26T01:55:29Z

Same bug I have two Inputs:
* Japanese + Mozc (Default Group)

* Russian (added through input sources of Ubuntu settings window)
I can switch between languages in terminal but (at least) Firefox and Chrome always printing english alpabet instead cyrillic.

Solved problem above by adding startup script to gnome session:
sleep 3 && export layouts=$(/usr/bin/gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources) && /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us')]" && sleep 0.5 && /usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "${layouts}"
This script temporarily set only English (US) input source and after that restore original sources. Probably that is not fcitx problem, but this problem didn't appear with iBus

Are you using wayland? If so it's kinda a known issue. X11 should be OK.

Also, yes indeed, there's plan to use gsettings to set global layouts under gnome.

razielvamp666 · 2022-07-26T05:45:03Z

Are you using wayland? If so it's kinda a known issue. X11 should be OK.

@wengxt
Yes, I'm using wayland. Is there any solution for this problem for wayland?
My solution is working but it is some kind of a not smart solution... I don't like it

wengxt · 2022-07-26T06:18:36Z

@razielvamp666 one option is that you just don't use the input method group, and put everything in the same group. But you probably don't want that.

Wayland doesn't have a similar thing like setxkbmap that is generic to all desktop. Every desktop now has its own way to set layout. Right now changing system layout with fcitx only supports KDE.

I guess you might need to wait until fcitx support it.. and it will just use the similar approach like your script actually.

liuxuzxx · 2022-07-26T12:21:21Z

The fcitx5 can only input chinese word in Terminal ,can not input Chinese in vscode ,chrome ,firefox etc......

wengxt · 2022-07-26T14:05:41Z

The fcitx5 can only input chinese word in Terminal ,can not input Chinese in vscode ,chrome ,firefox etc......

please use https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/discussions to ask questions. Especially, don't reply on a closed issue.

When you ask, please include the output of fcitx5-diagnose.

moxak · 2023-05-03T02:42:56Z

I have the same problem.

In my environment, I was able to enter letters by launching a third application from the terminal.

moxak · 2023-05-03T03:56:18Z

The following solution worked in my environment.

OS: Linux 6.2.13-arch1-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Session, DE: Wayland(GNOME)

Wayland does not have files that are executed at session startup such as .xprofile and .xinitrc to begin with, so I created ~/.config/environment.d/profile.conf and specified

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"

Now fcitx5 is recognized on the Wayland session and can be run by third-party apps launched from outside of bash.

GrimPixel · 2024-09-20T11:15:41Z

I had the same problem, using MATE on Arch Linux. The key is typing
XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
instead of
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx as seen on the official page.
So, could you add this to that page?

wengxt closed this as completed Nov 18, 2021

pplmx changed the title ~~Cannot work on Chrome. (It can work on the Ubuntu Terminal)~~ fcitx only works on default application, and cannot work on the third app Nov 23, 2021

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System Info:

Environment:

Fcitx State:

Fcitx Configure UI:

Frontends setup:

Xim:

Qt:

Gtk:

Configuration:

Fcitx Addons:

Log:

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