While doing some updates I noticed ibus-typing-booster on my Fedora 30 computer. The idea looked great for speeding up typing using suggestions (bit like Android). I have not tried it before now.
I am using the Cinnamon desktop BTW. (cinnamon-4.4.8-1.fc30.x86_64)
I have been trying to get it activated to work but have not seen the popup panel of suggestions. I cannot find where to enable the plugin. As you can see below, the package is installed but does not show in the process list
[graham@gm-ws1 ~]$ sudo dnf list ibus-typing-booster
Installed Packages
ibus-typing-booster.noarch 2.7.7-1.fc30 @updates
[graham@gm-ws1 ~]$ ps ax |grep ibus
1827 tty1 Sl 0:00 ibus-daemon --xim --panel disable [^1]
1830 tty1 Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-dconf
1833 tty1 Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-x11 --kill-daemon
1838 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-portal
2020 tty1 Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-engine-simple
3137 ? Sl 0:21 /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -r --xim
3146 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-dconf
3147 ? Sl 0:03 /usr/libexec/ibus-ui-gtk3
3148 ? Sl 0:09 /usr/libexec/ibus-extension-gtk3
3150 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-x11 --kill-daemon
3155 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-portal
3167 ? Sl 0:06 /usr/libexec/ibus-engine-simple
When I run ibus-setup
, on the ‘Input Method’ tab, when clicking button ‘Add’ and choose ‘English’, I don’t see any methods that have (typing booster) in their description. (Just several English US keyboard layouts). There is a single entry in that tab: ‘English = English(US)’
Using the command im-chooser
I see ‘Use IBus (recommended)’ is highlighted. Si it looks like it is ready to go.
Please help me out. What am I missing?
TIA