The language support settings are missing in the control center of the MATE edition. It is important for me that I can apply Ibus system-wide. Always having to start it manually is quite troublesome and putting it in startup applications doesn't solve the problem as this will always load Ibus settings which I have to click away upon startup.
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The function of Capture is unique to Ubuntu and it can not be applied to Solus.
(Apart from that, Ubuntu flavors has im-config provided by Debian)
In order to solve this problem Solus MATE's unique IBus implementation would be necessary...
It is true that a language item in the control center would be welcome !!!
I guess changing the locale and set LANG to the desired language should work, shouldn't it?
In order to solve this problem Solus MATE's unique IBus implementation would be necessary...
@balloon Do you know of any packages that are currently missing to achieve this? I am not sure how other non-Ubuntu-based distributions using MATE have solved this.
@baimafeima have you tried adding
ibus-daemon -drx
in startup applications instead? this way it should start as a daemon without loading Ibus settings to click away upon startup.
@i42870 I am not using Solus MATE at the moment, so I cannot confirm whether your suggestion works. In any case, I hope it won't be necessary to adjust this manually and I will reinstall Solus MATE once the IBus issue is sorted out. I'm not sure whether it's on the roadmap for Solus 4 though.
As announced in our Solus 4.4 blog post we are deprecating our MATE edition and so this issue will not be addressed.

