Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 im-config: breaks the keyboard input using XKB input (ZOOM user) Control: summary -1 0 thanks
Classic X environment supports to enter non-ASCII (latin) characters via XKB input and some people still want to use this via this old setting method. Bug was filed by an annoyed user who lost access to functionalities offered by his old fashioned XKB input setting. This happened because ZOOM (this package is external to Debian) provides its DEB package with its "Depends" listing ibus. It is reasonable for ZOOM to support Chinese and Japanese input and list ibus as dependency. (XKB can't support Chinese nor Japanese input) ibus merely recommends im-config for easy set-up but this fact pulls in im-config as its default behavior. im-config is a glue layer code to support keyboard input with focus to use modern mothods (such as ibus). im-config's default behavior is to use ibus (reasonable default choice). ibus can (I think) offer XKB equivalent input functionality if configured correctly. I don't use such feature so I can't explain with confidence. Here are some references which might help. * https://superuser.com/questions/1637594/how-to-pass-xkb-options-to-ibus-and-use-them-with-m17n-engines (2021) * https://vas.neocities.org/custom_keyboard_layout_xkb_ibus.html (2020) * https://askubuntu.com/questions/1139936/ubuntu-mate-disable-xkb-and-use-ibus (2019) * https://askubuntu.com/questions/1077683/ibus-xkb-engine-layouts-dont-work (2018) * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IBus#Troubleshooting (If I recall correctly, ibus-xkb code has been merged into ibus. ibus should offer this XKB input functionality by now.) Also for im-config, im-config can be configured not to use ibus by running this command: im-config -n none and reboot. For both ibus and im-config, the desirable user experience can be provided by proper user configuration. So there is no bug on im-config's parts. (Besides, you can remove im-config too since it is only recommended.) I consider this bug report as wishlist bug for the default of im-config. With the above assessment, I mark this as wontfix and leave this here to help ZOOM user :-) (Please note GNOME forces to use ibus even when you disable or remove im-config.) Regards, Osamu
