Hello! To arch people using suckless st with ibus and vim like myself: I found that upgrading to ibus 1.5.28 causes _something_ to break when using st, which can be solved by downgrading to e.g. 1.4.26 [1]. I find it hard to debug/provide insight on what is different now ... ibus worked in firefox but not in st, similar to what Vofan described back in 2021 [2].
I thought this might be caused by (1) upgrading from st-0.8.5 to st-0.9.0, (2) st-font2-20190416-ba72400.diff failing on st-0.9.0 ... A separate problem showing up at the same time: chinese characters does not display, for which the ttf-arphic-ukai package has been sufficent before. Solution: install noto-fonts-cjk ... I'm not satisfied with this solution, and I'm not sure this is why it worked, because my *font2 looks like, i.e. I define the ttf-arphic-ukai font from ukai.ttc ... Also, I added the -R flag in the .xinitrc exports [5], and somehow after reading some other thread than [2] decided to export the same to zsh in .zshrc.local [4] ... Also github does not work in suckless surf anymore ... and surf-2.0 works better than the new surf-2.1, which makes me feel dumb. Why can't I get the patches working right ... This might seem like mulitiple issues occurring at the same time, or a mix of separate issues ... I'm happy the old downgrading mentality still works somehow on these many random upgrade problems since I've used arch since way over ten years. Best, Rasmus 👍🏻 [1] doas pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-m17n-1.4.18-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-sunpinyin-3.0.0rc1+32+gf39c195-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-1.5.26-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libibus-1.5.26-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263381 [3] static char *font2[] = { "Liberation Mono:style=Bold:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "AR PL UKai CN:style=Book:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "JoyPixels:style=Regular:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "NotoEmoji Nerd Font Mono:style=Book:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true" }; [5] ibus-daemon -rxR & export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -rxR" [4] export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus QT_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -rxR"
