bug: kitty and wezterm have trouble processing ime input (because they are spammed by fcitx5-daemon ?)

[teto]

Are you following the right branch?

• My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

Kitty had trouble processing my input:

• no repeat on keypress
• sometimes it would ignore keypress
• can't copy/paste freeze

I tried to switch to wezterm. At first it all seemed fine but then I experienced the same and wezterm had the tendency to lockup (the wayland backend is being rewritten, that might be why). Then I found kovidgoyal/kitty#2191 (comment) and as I explained later on in the thread, kitty was receiving lots of IME-related events even without me using the keyboard. systemctl stop --user fcitx5-daemon fixed the issue. I have yet to investigate the situation. Looks like there is an execve failure in my fcitx5 journal.

Putting it out there since fix was not obvious.

Maintainer CC

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System information

nixos-unstable

[teto]

just found out by looking at NixOS/nixpkgs#316403 that it's a known bug https://groups.google.com/g/fcitx/c/8V0OVxkUkFA?pli=1 swaywm/sway#8143