Fcitx5 not working over some flatpak apps (e.g. ZOOM, Notesnook, etc)
Hey yall, recently I have started using apps like ZOOM and Notesnook app, however I cannot change language to either fcitx5 Korean/Japanese IM(Input Manager) for some reason. Other flatpak apps like Zen browser/Firefox/Chrome works fine but for these apps, does not work for some reason. Is there any known workaround for this? I am using the KDE version of the Bazzite 42.
Methods I have tried:
* Setting GTK, QT variables, no luck. (Instead it asks me to remove these two variable and leave one only through notifications)
* Tried adding variables through Flatseal, no luck.
* Tried enabling home/library access through Flatseal, no luck.
Solution:Jump to solution
You could try using an appimage instead of a flatpak with https://github.com/probonopd/Zoom.AppImage/. Alternatively you could install Zoom in a distrobox and see if it behaves better than the flatpak
GitHub
GitHub - probonopd/Zoom.AppImage: An AppImage for the Zoom desktop ...
An AppImage for the Zoom desktop application (until Zoom provides an official one) - probonopd/Zoom.AppImage
7 Replies
Solution
You could try using an appimage instead of a flatpak with https://github.com/probonopd/Zoom.AppImage/. Alternatively you could install Zoom in a distrobox and see if it behaves better than the flatpak
GitHub
GitHub - probonopd/Zoom.AppImage: An AppImage for the Zoom desktop ...
An AppImage for the Zoom desktop application (until Zoom provides an official one) - probonopd/Zoom.AppImage
I forgot to check this thread ;-;
Thanks for the reply, can I run apps from Distrobox on desktop or do I have to run it with command line while distrobox is active?
With distrobox you can install the application and export it, then you can start the application like you would any other application from the desktop menu. Your downside with distrobox is your application cold start-up will be longer since the application has to first start a container then run the application
Will fcitx5 work under Distrobox apps (e.g. Ubuntu)?
It might. No idea, since I don't use it. If that doesn't work I did find a rpm package for it here https://fedora.pkgs.org/42/fedora-x86_64/fcitx5-5.1.12-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm.html so you might be able to layer it with the
rpm-ostree install command if you can't use it in distroboxI already have fcitx5 installed and it is active, but I will try it on distrobox apps
Yep this worked, and now both distrobox and appimage non-english language typing works
Thanks a bunch