[digiKam-users] Compose key not working in digikam when running as an appimage

[Gerrit Holl-2]

Hi,

My Compose key (set to the Menu key) is not working in digikam,
whether started from Kubuntu (Plasma) or from Xubuntu (XFCE desktop).
I am running digikam by directly executing the
digikam-6.4.0-x86-64.appimage file. It is working in all other
applications that I have tested. By not working, I mean that the key
has no effect: typing Compose o a results in oa instead of å.

The only thing I can think off setting digikam apart from other
programs is that I'm starting digikam as an appimage file. Could this
cause the Compose key to be not working?  Perhaps because it's not
properly "integrated" in the desktop environment?  What can I do to
debug and/or fix it and get the Compose key to work?

From export | grep IM:

declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"

I have considered to try to install digikam from source to see if it
works then, but this is a bit more complicated than I thought so I
have paused this for now, and I don't know if it would solve the
problem.

(also asked at https://askubuntu.com/q/1206957/36831)

Gerrit.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

hi,

what do you mean by compose key exactly ? can you share a screenshot ?

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 31 janv. 2020 à 23:58, Gerrit Holl <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Hi,

My Compose key (set to the Menu key) is not working in digikam,
whether started from Kubuntu (Plasma) or from Xubuntu (XFCE desktop).
I am running digikam by directly executing the
digikam-6.4.0-x86-64.appimage file. It is working in all other
applications that I have tested. By not working, I mean that the key
has no effect: typing Compose o a results in oa instead of å.

The only thing I can think off setting digikam apart from other
programs is that I'm starting digikam as an appimage file. Could this
cause the Compose key to be not working?  Perhaps because it's not
properly "integrated" in the desktop environment?  What can I do to
debug and/or fix it and get the Compose key to work?

From export | grep IM:

declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
declare -x XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"

I have considered to try to install digikam from source to see if it
works then, but this is a bit more complicated than I thought so I
have paused this for now, and I don't know if it would solve the
problem.

(also asked at https://askubuntu.com/q/1206957/36831)

Gerrit.

[Gerrit Holl-2]

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 00:07, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:
> what do you mean by compose key exactly ? can you share a screenshot ?

I mean this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

In KDE, I enable it like this:

https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey

it works in all applications, but not in digikam.

I can't think of a screenshot to share that shown anything.  I
configured my Menu key (on my keyboard) as an alias to the Compose key
(because I don't have a physical Compose key) following the KDE
Compose Key tutorial.  When I then press the Menu key, the next key
press is a "dead" key depending on the combination; <Menu> o a -> å,
<Menu> ' o -> ó, <Menu> s s -> ß, etc.

For some reason I don't know it doesn't work in digikam; I just get
oa, 'o, ss in the above examples (the key never becomes "dead" to
begin with).  I wonder if the appimage means it is somehow bypassing
the standard input methods configuration?

Hope that clarifies what I mean, sorry for the confusion.

Gerrit.

[Vlado Plaga]

Hi all,

this is a problem I can reproduce, with Digikam 6.4 from an AppImage
under Debian 10.

I noticed another problem, by the way: missing icons e.g. in the
"Albums" tree.

Gerrit, you could try another AppImage to see if the broken compose key
is more a general AppImage problem, or actually a digiKam problem. Only
in the latter case I'd suggest filing a bug ticket for digiKam.

I'm not a big fan of AppImages, and I no longer really need to be
running the latest digiKam (or latest anything for that matter) all the
time. It's only because of my network setup, and my Arch laptop having
updated to the latest digiKam, that I thought I'd better also update
digiKam on the other computer...

So, Gerrit, if you require recent digiKam, and the compose key, but
don't mind trying a new distro... go for Archlinux!

Best,

Vlado

Am 01.02.20 um 00:26 schrieb Gerrit Holl: