https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568365
--- Comment #3 from Bernie Innocenti bernie+fedora@codewiz.org --- My locale is en_US.UTF-8 and I'm using ibus + mozc for Japanese input.
Indeed, running im-chooser and selecting ibus fixed the issue for me: it created a symlink from ~/.config/imsettings/xinputrc to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus.conf, which causes ibus-daemon to start as expected at login time.
I didn't have to install any new packages (dnf groupinstall input-methods brings in a huge number of dependencies!).
Would it be a good idea to open a separate bug for improving the overall user experience of configuring input methods? Every time I switch distro, desktop, or machine, I end up spending a *huge* amount of time figuring out how to get Japanese input to work. The main issues I encountered are:
1. there are *way* too many combinations of toolkit's IM module + IM framework + language-specific IM + desktop applet + configuration GUI
2. documentation is scattered around the Internet, it's often distro-specific or desktop-specific, and too often recommends components that are no longer being maintained
3. hard to find upstream projects with so many forks and abandoned repositories. Just deleting dead projects would save users a lot of dead ends
4. Specific to Japanese: defaults assume a Japanese keyboard with mode switching keys. There should be an obvious way to setup things for US keyboards using the same shortcuts of Windows or OS X
Happy to move this topic to a different bugzilla component or on a mailing-list, but which one?