I'm wondering where is the config file of ibus stored? I checked ~/.config/ibus, and there's only a dbus socket. And no ~/.ibus folder available.

I am currently custumizing my .XCompose file in Fedora 29 Workstation (with the default GNOME 3, Wayland, etc). It seems that it does follow the rules I add to the ~/.XCompose file, but if I make changes to it then they are only noticed after I log out and log back in again. Is there something I can do to make the changes take effect immediately? I tried running ibus restart on the terminal but it didn't seem to work. Actually, doing that broke the compose-key functionality completely and I had to restart the session again to fix it.

I am new to Fedora and KDE, and I am trying to install a Chinese IME through fcitx5 on my Fedora 42 KDA Plasma. As I follow instructions given on other Reddit threads, I got stuck on the input method selector applet, which returns : "input method doesn't support im-chooser on this desktop session", and the log below : > [ 20.297670]: GLib-GIO: DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: > Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for > ‘gsettings-backend’ imsettings information > > XINPUTRC: /home/usr/.config/imsettings/xinputrc Fichier : > /home/usr/.config/imsettings/xinputrc -> > /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/xcompose.conf Taille : 37 Blocs : 8 > Blocs d'E/S : 4096 symbolic link Périphérique : 0/42Inœud : 137854 > Liens : 1 Accès : (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) UID : ( 1000/ usr) GID : ( > 1000/ usr) Contexte : unconfined_u:object_r:config_home_t:s0 > Accès : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.446602366 +0200 Modif. : 2025-06-08 > 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 Changt : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 > Créé : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 Is DBus enabled: yes Is > imsettings enabled: yes Is GTK+ supported: yes Is Qt supported: yes Is > Action needed: yes DESKTOP: KDE-wayland GUESS_DESKTOP: > $XDG_SESSION_TYPE DISABLE_IMSETTINGS: > IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_DESKTOP_CHECK: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: > unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus GTK_IM_MODULE: QT_IM_MODULE: xim > XMODIFIERS: @im=none IMSETTINGS_MODULE: X compose table > IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP: yes IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_SYS_XINPUTRC: no > IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_USER_XINPUTRC: no IMSETTINGS_IGNORE_SESSION: > > > [ 26.319709]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 > > [ 26.333147]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Unable to > open X Display. Input Method may not work. [ 26.335904]: > libnotify: DEBUG: SNAP app: (null) [ 27.374772]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: Starting imsettings-daemon... [ > 27.374933]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [HOME=/home/usr/.config/imsettings] [ 27.375010]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [XINPUTRCDIR=/etc/X11/xinit/] [ > 27.375077]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [XINPUTDIR=/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/] > > [ 27.375140]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > [MODULEDIR=/usr/lib64/imsettings] > > [ 27.375204]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > [MODULES=gsettings] > > [ 27.382049]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: X Display is > available [ 27.392989]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > Unloading imesttings module: gsettings [ 27.393222]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: imsettings-daemon is shut down. [ > 28.073604]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: Attempting to switch IM to X compose table [lang=en_GB.UTF-8, desktop=KDE-wayland, update=false] > > [ 28.403490]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 [ 28.403897]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: no need to invoke any auxiliary > process for X compose table [ 28.404984]: GLib-GIO: > DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf > (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’ [ 28.405484]: > IMSettings-GSettings backend: INFO: Setting up xim:xim as gtk+ > immodule > > [ 36.817939]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 > > > > > > > > pre { background: transparent }pre.western { font-family: "Liberation > Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt }pre.cjk { font-family: "Noto Sans > Mono CJK SC", monospace; font-size: 10pt }pre.ctl { font-family: > "Liberation Mono", monospace; font-size: 10pt }p { margin-bottom: > 0.25cm; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }[ 20.297670]: GLib-GIO: DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for > ‘gsettings-backend’ imsettings information > > > XINPUTRC: /home/usr/.config/imsettings/xinputrc Fichier : > /home/usr/.config/imsettings/xinputrc -> > /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/xcompose.conf Taille : 37 Blocs : 8 > Blocs d'E/S : 4096 symbolic link Périphérique : 0/42Inœud : 137854 > Liens : 1 Accès : (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) UID : ( 1000/ usr) GID : ( > 1000/ usr) Contexte : unconfined_u:object_r:config_home_t:s0 > Accès : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.446602366 +0200 Modif. : 2025-06-08 > 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 Changt : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 > Créé : 2025-06-08 17:54:32.241601294 +0200 Is DBus enabled: yes Is > imsettings enabled: yes Is GTK+ supported: yes Is Qt supported: yes Is > Action needed: yes DESKTOP: KDE-wayland GUESS_DESKTOP: > $XDG_SESSION_TYPE DISABLE_IMSETTINGS: > IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_DESKTOP_CHECK: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: > unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus GTK_IM_MODULE: QT_IM_MODULE: xim > XMODIFIERS: @im=none IMSETTINGS_MODULE: X compose table > IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP: yes IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_SYS_XINPUTRC: no > IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_USER_XINPUTRC: no IMSETTINGS_IGNORE_SESSION: > > > [ 26.319709]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 > > [ 26.333147]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Unable to > open X Display. Input Method may not work. [ 26.335904]: > libnotify: DEBUG: SNAP app: (null) [ 27.374772]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: Starting imsettings-daemon... [ > 27.374933]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [HOME=/home/usr/.config/imsettings] [ 27.375010]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [XINPUTRCDIR=/etc/X11/xinit/] [ > 27.375077]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: [XINPUTDIR=/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/] > > [ 27.375140]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > [MODULEDIR=/usr/lib64/imsettings] > > [ 27.375204]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > [MODULES=gsettings] > > [ 27.382049]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: X Display is > available [ 27.392989]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: > Unloading imesttings module: gsettings [ 27.393222]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: imsettings-daemon is shut down. [ > 28.073604]: IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: Attempting to switch IM to X compose table [lang=en_GB.UTF-8, desktop=KDE-wayland, update=false] > > [ 28.403490]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 [ 28.403897]: > IMSettings-Daemon: INFO: no need to invoke any auxiliary > process for X compose table [ 28.404984]: GLib-GIO: > DEBUG: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf > (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’ [ 28.405484]: > IMSettings-GSettings backend: INFO: Setting up xim:xim as gtk+ > immodule > > [ 36.817939]: IMSettings-Daemon: WARNING **: Child > process exited with code 1 Can someone please give me some advice to succeed ?

I am running Debian 11 Bullseye for AMD64 on an HP Pavillion Touch 14-N009LA laptop, using IBus and MATE as desktop environment, having upgraded recently from Buster. Prior to upgrading point release, I could use the Latin American keyboard layout with IBus; afterwards, I am no longer able to do so. The Keyboard Preferences app on MATE Control Center shows the Latin American Spanish layout, and I can manually set it with setxkbmap latam on a terminal (before IBus kicks in and replaces it), but on IBus I am only presented with the "Spanish" keyboard, which corresponds to the Spaniard Spanish keyboard that has different punctuation keys; there is no option for "Latin American" or anything similar. Running ibus list-engine gives me the following output, in which I can't see the Latin American Spanish layout, and no matches for latam or anything similar: language: Spanish xkb:es:nodeadkeys:spa - Spanish (no dead keys) xkb:es:sundeadkeys:spa - Spanish (Sun dead keys) xkb:es:winkeys:spa - Spanish (Windows) xkb:es:dvorak:spa - Spanish (Dvorak) xkb:es:deadtilde:spa - Spanish (dead tilde) xkb:es:mac:spa - Spanish (Macintosh) xkb:es::spa - Spanish So far I could only find a guide that only seems to apply to Ubuntu , and the Arch Linux guide for IBus . The former guide suggested that maybe I had to generate a Spanish locale for my system, which I did by uncommenting the es-MX locales from /etc/locale.gen and then running locale-gen. Afterwards, I rebooted my system. It didn't work. Any other idea on how could I use the Latin American Spanish layout on IBus for Debian Bullseye?

Is there a graphical keyboard for ibus-zhuyin? The layout seems to be different from OSX and Windows. It's rather hard to remember a different layout

I use the Cinnamon desktop environment, v6.0.4, on Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur (~= Debian Trixie). I use multiple keyboard layouts. On my taskbar, I see two distinct keyboard layout indicators, which identify themselves as: * iBus 1.5.30 "IBus is an intelligent input bus for Linux/Unix." * Keyboard (keyboard@cinnamon.org) "Keyboard Layout" When I press the layout switch key combination, it's the Cinnamon indicator which changes; and that is ok with me. What I want is to make the iBus indicator go away and not confuse me. Can I do this (hopefully without hurting other usage scenario, like logging in to a different desktop environment)?

I installed ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3.\ I also installed ibus-unikey and ibus-bamboo, which are packages required for typing in Vietnamese.\ I added the following lines in ~/.bashrc

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

Set ibus daemon to automatically run at startup as ibus-daemon --xim\ I also ran im-config, choosing ibus option at user configuration.\ And I still cannot type Vietnamese characters. Am I missing any steps? Or am I not providing enough information? Helps are appreciated.

I want to use IBus with libpinyin on my NixOS install with KDE plasma. IBus is installed and works fine, with the following config in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix # use IBus for input i18n.inputMethod = { enabled = "ibus"; ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [libpinyin]; }; I also want to be able to compose some specific characters when I am using libpinyin in 'English' mode or when I am using the English input engine. Following various guides I tried the following configuration: ~/.xsessionrc: xmodmap -e "keysym ISO_Level3_Shift = Multi_key" ~/.XCompose: include "%L" # Compose keys for pinyin with tone marks : "ā" : "ē" : "ī" : "ō" : "ū" : "á" : "é" : "í" : "ó" : "ú" : "ǎ" : "ě" : "ǐ" : "ǒ" : "ǔ" : "à" : "è" : "ì" : "ò" : "ù" With this configuration, no compose characters work. If I run bash ~/.xsessionrc then I can see that xev reports the correct compose characters like so; If I type , then various events appear in the log, one of which includes this line: XmbLookupString gives 3 bytes: (61 cc 81) "á" So the xsessionrc file isn't running at the right time (on login I suppose), but furthermore, no other applications actually allow me to use the compose combinations. Both kwrite and chromium ignore the XCompose config, even after using the suggested config below in my ~/.profile; export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus (This config is getting set, as env shows these variables as being set.) To be clear it is only xev that shows that the config _might_ be somewhat correct. No real application that actually needs input will let me compose these characters. How can I get the compose behaviour I want?