bug#53698: 29.0.50; ibus input method of chinese with rime engine can't work in v27 and ibus candidate menu blink in v29

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:09:03 +0800
Po Lu via wrote:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> It works here for me (Fedora 35, stock GNOME with IBus), but we do want
>> to fix this problem and keep X input methods working as well as they
>> used to.
>>
>> Do you see the same problem in other programs that use XIM, such as
>> xterm?  If not, try placing:
>>
>>   Emacs.inputStyle: none
>>
>> in your X defaults file, and see if that solves the problem.
>>
>> Most of this is caused by a more fundamental problem: XIM is an obsolete
>> interface with many limitations; most applications today rely on the
>> authors of input method frameworks to provide input modules for their
>> specific toolkit, and as a result the XIM backends for input method
>> frameworks get very little testing and are buggy.
>>
>> Unfortunately, since we cannot demand that input method frame
>                                                           ^^^^^
>
> This was supposed to say "framework".
>
> If the same problem exists in xterm, it's plausible that IBus broke
> their XIM backend, which shows up in bleeding edge GNU/Linux
> distributions such as Arch.

It doesn't (see my previous reply). And I use fcitx, not IBus, but I
guess that doesn't really matter (as I wrote, even XkbLayout switching
is broken in the same way, _in Emacs_).

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