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dconf needs to be in environment for ibus-setup to work

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From: Caleb Ristvedt <caleb.ristvedt <at> cune.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: dconf needs to be in environment for ibus-setup to work
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:25:36 -0500

On installing ibus and ibus-libpinyin and ensuring the appropriate
environment variables were applied, I attempted to run ibus-setup. I
went to the "Input Method" section and added the "Chinese - Intelligent
Pinyin" method. At that point ibus-setup output this message:

dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name ca.desrt.dconf was not provided by any .service files

Restarting ibus-setup showed that the changes had not stuck (if they
ever were even applied). The problem persisted until I installed dconf
into my profile, at which point it worked as expected. It seems Nix has
encountered this problem as well:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11108

I believe this would be fixed by changing dconf from a regular input to
a propagated-input of ibus. Note that ibus-setup needs to be run in
order to add *any* input method, including, say, English.

- Reepca

Message #8 received at 32981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nguyễn Gia Phong <mcsinyx <at> disroot.org>
To: <32981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: dconf needs to be in environment for ibus-setup to work
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:57:49 +0900

On 2018-10-07 at 21:25:36-0500, Caleb Ristvedt wrote:
> On installing ibus and ibus-libpinyin and ensuring
> the appropriate environment variables were applied,
> I attempted to run ibus-setup.  I went to the "Input Method" section
> and added the "Chinese - Intelligent Pinyin" method.  At that point
> ibus-setup output this message:
>
> dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name ca.desrt.dconf was not provided by any .service files
>
> Restarting ibus-setup showed that the changes had not stuck
> (if they ever were even applied). The problem persisted
> until I installed dconf into my profile, at which point it worked
> as expected.

I can still reproduce this issue and workaround.

On 2018-10-07 at 21:25:36-0500, Caleb Ristvedt wrote:
> It seems Nix has encountered this problem as well:
> 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11108
> 
> I believe this would be fixed by changing dconf from a regular input
> to a propagated-input of ibus.  Note that ibus-setup needs to be run
> in order to add *any* input method, including, say, English.

Should ibus-setup be patched accordingly?

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