Re: alacritty: possible inputmethod issue?

[iquiw <iku.iwasa%gmail.com@localhost>]

I have a workaround fix of the problem and also prepared a sample C
program that simulates the problem.
Please find the following repository.

https://github.com/iquiw/netbsd-x11-dlopen-issue

I don't know where the actual cause exists though.


On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 1:43 AM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> 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?
>  Thomas