Can't use ibus-typing-booster's inline and word suggestion feature!

[Mahmudul-hasan613]

Description the bug Attached are two screenshots of the problem and a log file.

Screenshots

ibus-typing-booster version ==> 2.19.8

ibus version ==> 1.5.26

Distribution and version? Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Desktop and version? Gnome 42.4

Xorg or Wayland? X11

Additional context test-suite.log

[Mahmudul-hasan613]

I found the word suggestion option. But when I type a word the word suggestion doesn't show, but if I press tab key while writing a word the word suggestion shows.

[mike-fabian]

What are your settings? You can show me your settings by doing:

dconf dump /org/freedesktop/ibus/engine/typing-booster/ > /tmp/ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt

then attach the ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt file here.

[mike-fabian]

I think the failures in the test-suite are unrelated to your problem.

Error initializing Transliterator bn-inscript2 Maybe /usr/share/m17n/bn-inscript2.mim is not installed?

You could download https://releases.pagure.org/inscript2/inscript2-20210820.tar.gz` it contains:

$ tar tvf inscript2-20210820.tar.gz  | grep bn-inscript2
-rw-r--r-- parag/parag    1367 2021-05-27 08:02 inscript2/icons/bn-inscript2.png
-rw-r--r-- parag/parag    3427 2021-05-27 19:01 inscript2/IM/bn-inscript2.mim

and then copy bn-inscript2.png to /usr/share/m17n and bn-inscript2.png to /usr/share/m17n/icons.

But you probably don’t need bn-inscript2

    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, 'am_ET.UTF-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/locale.py", line 620, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

You could install the missing locales on your Ubuntu system to avoid these fails in the test suite.

(I think I change the test suite to skip tests for specific locales if the locales are not available).

The remaining failures you see are because some hunspell dictionaries have different versions on your system compared to mine.

But I believe none of these failures in the test suite has anything to do with the problem you report.

So you can also ignore these failues if you want.

[Mahmudul-hasan613]

What are your settings? You can show me your settings by doing:

dconf dump /org/freedesktop/ibus/engine/typing-booster/ > /tmp/ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt

then attach the ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt file here.

ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt

[Mahmudul-hasan613]

So you can also ignore these failues if you want.

Thank you so much for explaining the technical issues so nicely. And I will ignore those problems.

[mike-fabian]

ibus-typing-booster-settings.txt

Thank you!

Your settings contain:

inlinecompletion=0
tabenable=true
inputmethod='bn-national-jatiya,bn-unijoy,NoIME,bn-inscript2'

tabenable=true is the reason why you have to press the tab key to see completions. This option can be set to true by users who mostly don’t want completions but only want them sometimes and request them by typing tab only if they want them (It is possible to configure a diferent key than tab for this, tab is just the default).

So if you want completion always, set this option to false (I prefer false as well, false is also the default).

I.e. use this setting in the setup tool:

☐ Enable suggestions by key (Default is the Tab key)

inlinecompletion=0

means you have set inline completion to 'No'.

For inline completion there exist 3 options now:

Use inline completion : [ No | Yes, with fallback to popup | Yes, without fallback to popup ]

“No” means you will never see the completions inline, the completions will always be shown as a popup.

“Yes, with fallback to popup” means the “best” completion is shown inline if possible, but if that is not possible then the completions are shown as a popup (for example because the suggested completion is not just an extension of what has been typed but maybe a spelling correction or an emoji, or ...) If the “best” completion is shown inline but it is not what one wants, one can type Tab twice to show more completions (the first tab selects the first candidate, i.e. the “best” completioņ if one does not commit it with space but types another Tab, then the second completion is shown which forces e display of the popup).

“Yes, but without fallback to popup” also means that the “best” completion is shown inline if possible, but if that is not possible, no popup will be shown. One can still type Tab in this case to force a popup to be shown.

[mike-fabian]

And your settings also contain bn-inscript2:

inputmethod='bn-national-jatiya,bn-unijoy,NoIME,bn-inscript2'

I thought you might not want it because inscript2 seems to be mostly used in India, not in Bangladesh.

But if you want it, then you can easily install it from https://releases.pagure.org/inscript2/inscript2-20210820.tar.gz

[Mahmudul-hasan613]

I understand that. Thank you so much for explaining everything so easily. Now I can see word suggestions while typing.