Re: alacritty: possible inputmethod issue?

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 at 17:43, Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've recently tried out x11/alacritty, a terminal emulator written in
> rust, on NetBSD 9.99.85/amd64.
>
> It doesn't start:
>
> thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to open input method: PotentialInputMethods {
>     xmodifiers: None,
>     fallbacks: [
>         PotentialInputMethod {
>             name: "@im=local",
>             successful: Some(
>                 false,
>             ),
>         },
>         PotentialInputMethod {
>             name: "@im=",
>             successful: Some(
>                 false,
>             ),
>         },
>     ],
>     _xim_servers: Err(
>         GetPropertyError(
>             TypeMismatch(
>                 0,
>             ),
>         ),
>     ),
> }', /home/pbulk/build/x11/alacritty/work/vendor/winit-0.24.0/src/platform_impl/linux/x11/mod.rs:134:17
>
>
> tnn reports that this works when built with X from pkgsrc, so I wonder
> if we're doing something wrong in base X11 to break this.
>
> Does anyone have an idea?

I have been reporting the same for ages... I've never seen alacritty
work under NetBSD yet.  Always exactly the same message.

>  Thomas


Chavdar

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