Rime appears to ignore the system keyboard layout.

[jonathanknowles]

Dear Rime Maintainers:

On my system, Rime (version 1.2) appears to ignore the system keyboard layout, and instead acts as if the system keyboard layout is hard-wired to QWERTY.

I installed the "ibus-rime" package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

$ apt-cache policy ibus-rime
ibus-rime:
    Installed: 1.2-1build1
    Candidate: 1.2-1build1
    ...

My system keyboard layout is set to US Dvorak:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak"
XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt"
BACKSPACE="guess"

Other input methods on my system (such as ibus-libpinyin) correctly observe the system keyboard layout, but if I select Rime, it appears to assume my keyboard is set to QWERTY.

Is there a workaround for this issue?

I'm willing to help with debugging the problem. I've filed a bug for Ubuntu here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus-rime/+bug/1574440

Thanks for your help! Jonathan

[jonathanknowles]

After some debugging, I've found that my system has the "us" layout configured for RIME (by default).

$ grep layout /usr/share/ibus/component/rime.xml
<layout>us</layout>

I discovered that the problem goes away if I change this line to the following:

<layout>default</layout>

This is the same as your master branch (https://github.com/rime/ibus-rime/blob/master/rime.xml#L19), which has the correct value of "default".

So I suspect this is a bug in Ubuntu, and possibly Debian.

[lotem]

Thanks for reporting, Jonathan. The change on master was made after ibus-rime 1.2 release. The issue will be fixed in the next release.

[jonathanknowles]

You're welcome! Many thanks for your reply @lotem

Is there a plan to release a new version of ibus-rime in the near future?

All the best Jonathan

[cyqsimon]

I came across this issue due to a different need. I type English on Dvorak layout and Chinese on QWERTY layout. So I actually want Rime to not use the system's default layout.

In my case, <layout>default</layout> is the default value. I changed it back to <layout>us</layout> to force Rime to use QWERTY when switching to Chinese IME.

[NeedAboutTreeFiddy]

In my case, <layout>default</layout> is the default value. I changed it back to <layout>us</layout> to force Rime to use QWERTY when switching to Chinese IME.

Can you explain like I'm 5 how to you to where you can edit the configuation file? I want english default and bopomo chinese alternate but I can half my interface KDE in chinese .

[cyqsimon]

Can you explain like I'm 5 how to you to where you can edit the configuation file?

<sudo> nano /usr/share/ibus/component/rime.xml

[leafpool243]

I came across this issue due to a different need. I type English on Dvorak layout and Chinese on QWERTY layout. So I actually want Rime to not use the system's default layout.

In my case, <layout>default</layout> is the default value. I changed it back to <layout>us</layout> to force Rime to use QWERTY when switching to Chinese IME.

@cyqsimon Thank you! It was annoying me that my Bopomofo/Zhuyin layout was getting messed up.