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Re: Input method in cygwin-x ?


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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