Re: fcitx: add usage with kitty & fix typo

On 22/06/08 12:28PM, Omar Polo wrote:
> Yifei Zhan <openbsd@zhan.science> wrote:
> > On 22/06/08 09:56AM, Omar Polo wrote:
> > > Yifei Zhan <openbsd@zhan.science> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > +To use fcitx with kitty terminal, also add the following line:
> > > > +
> > > > +export GLFW_IM_MODULE=ibus
> > >
> > > I guess this is not needed only for kitty, but also for other
> > > applications using GLFW?
> >
> > I'm not sure, I can't validate as I'm not aware of any other
> > application requiring this variable despite some grepping in the ports
> > tree/searching on the web. However, if that's the case, I'm not
> > against changing it :)
>
> despite the name, it seems that only kitty uses that environment
> variable. (verified also with debian codesearch)
>
> https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/3206#issuecomment-753740868
>
> a bit sad that this is not even mentioned in the manpage.
>
> in theory the best place to document this would be the kitty port, but
> since we're already documenting the other toolkit-dependent env vars in
> the fcitx readme adding a note about kitty seems the easier and less
> intrusive option. (even thought patching kitty' manpage and upstreaming
> the diff is also an option.)

Thanks for checking! I prefer to just put it as a sidenote on fcitx's
README now, because I don't use kitty often enough to maintain a
patch/upstreaming it, also I'm trying to maintain a single source of
truth for IME config as having those details spread across different
ports can be hard for me to keep track of.