Disscussion on the environment variables setting of fcitx5 once more.

[hongyi-zhao]

I noticed the notes given here about the environment variables setting of fcitx5 as shown below:

wayland: ~/.pam_environment

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx5"

x11: ~/.xprofile

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx5
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
fcitx5 &

As you can see, the above settings will trigger the starting of fcitx5 for the x11 case in the ~/.xprofile but for the wayland case doesn't. I'm very confused on this. Any hints?

Regards,
HY

[mviereck]

I doubt that fcitx will run under Wayland at all because it uses X server technology.

Aside from that, Wayland will never run ~/.xprofile because it is not an X server.
You could run the commands in ~/.bashrc instead.

[hongyi-zhao]

What is the difference between using ~/.xprofile or ~/.bashrc for this case?

[mviereck]

This is something you could easily research on your own.
~./xprofile is started on X startup, ~/.bashrc is started on bash startup.

[hongyi-zhao]

Based on the notes given by the author of fcitx, the environment variables should be set ~/.xprofile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, or some other similar places with the following form:

export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx