On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:01:59PM +0200, Maarten van Gompel wrote: > Hi, > > I identified a problem when switching input methods: XIM and XKB keymaps > with dead keys can not be used properly in the same session as that > breaks the dead keys (= composition keys for diacritics). > > My situation: I use regular XKB to type in languages using a latin or > cyrillic script, but for Chinese I need of course need a proper input > method (e.g. fcitx or ibus-libpinyin). I want to change between input > methods on the fly, this currently does not work, if st is started with > a XMODIFIERS="@im=whatever" then normal dead keys don't work, regardless > whether the underlying XIM server is running or not, if it is started > with an empty XMODIFIERS="", then they do work. It means I need to > restart the terminal if I want to properly switch between chinese and my > usual dead keys. Switching in my case entails killing the XIM server if > it's running and running setxkbmap to set the desired keymap. > > To reproduce: > > Case 1) > $ export XMODIFIERS="" > $ setxbkmap es > $ st > Type apostrophe a and output is á , as expected, but of course no XIM now > > Case 2) > $ export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx" > $ setxbkmap es #spanish XKB keymap to illustrate the issue > $ st > Type apostrophe a and output is 'a instead of á > > > I think st should behave the same way most applications do; if the xim > server is not running, it should exhibit the same behaviour as if no XIM > was configured at all. (for comparison; terminals like urxvt and > alacritty behave in this way, GTK and QT apps too) > > The problem was introduced in the following commit: > > 787c9a55fea7131b4f1e5c7699b68b3517db8e49 Quentin Rameau > x: fix XIM handling > > Prior to this commit though, the situation was much worse as st would > simply crash if the XIM server stopped, so there's good progress but we > aren't entirely there yet :) > > Regards, > > -- > > Maarten van Gompel > > proy...@anaproy.nl > https://proycon.anaproy.nl > https://github.com/proycon > > GnuPG key: 0x39FE11201A31555C > XMPP: proy...@anaproy.nl Matrix: @proycon:matrix.anaproy.nl > Telegram: proycon IRC: proycon (freenode) > Mastodon: https://social.anaproy.nl/@proycon (@proy...@social.anaproy.nl) > Twitter: https://twitter.com/proycon >
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. Is anyone willing to work on this and improve general XIM support? Alternatively maybe the current code should be removed and completely reworked? -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
