Re: Input method in cygwin-x ?

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 27/03/2015 06:41, Arthur Tu wrote:
> I did some experiments with ibus.
>
> I have a linux machine with ibus installed. When using that machine
> natively, I can use ibus without any further configuration, except for
> ibus daemon startup. Applications like gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal,
> emacs24, google-chrome and chromium work fine ibus.
>
> When I access that machine from another Windows computer with "ssh -Y
> machine" and start ibus daemon with "ibus-daemon&", the following
> behavior was obeserved.
> 1.  ibus worked fine with gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal and goolge-chrome.
> 2.  ibus didn't work with xterm, emacs24 and chromium.

Thanks for these details.

I did a bit of experimentation with a Ubutunu 14.10 remote host

ibus-daemon -drx
export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"

Gives me working ibus with xterm.

I couldn't get emacs working with ibus even locally, and setting that up 
seems to be a bit obscure.  Are you using ibus.el?

Chromium just works for me.

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Jon TURNEY
> <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 25/03/2015 06:44, Arthur Tu wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to use input method in cygwin-x environment?
>>>
>>> For example, when I invoke emacs with
>>> """""""""""""""""
>>> ssh -X remote-machine
>>> emacs
>>> """"""""""""""""""
>>>
>>> I can't use either input methods in local windows machine or those in
>>> remote linux server.
>>
>>
>> This is something that I want to work, but I'm afraid I have no experience
>> using IMEs, so I'm not sure what needs doing, which is why the section [1]
>> in the User's Guide is currently empty.  I hope you can help me with
>> identifying what that needs to say!
>>
>> I believe it should possible to start your IME (ibus, scim, etc.) in the
>> remote sessions and have that work.
>>
>> Alternatively, there was some work done a while ago to provide a bridge
>> between the native Windows IME and the server, which I believe allowed using
>> the native Windows IME to input into X windows.  If that is useful, I can
>> probably bring that up to date.
>>
>> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-i18n.html#using-i18n-ime
>> [2] https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00066.html

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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