make fcitx work in sublime-text-3

Preface

Recently I began to use sublime and I found that fcitx couldn’t work in sublime. This is quite weird. After searching online for a while, I found a solution which could solve the problem in a “dirty” way.

Solution

First, thanks to cjacker, save the following script as sublime-imfix.c

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/*
sublime-imfix.c
Use LD_PRELOAD to interpose some function to fix sublime input method support for linux.
By Cjacker Huang <jianzhong.huang at i-soft.com.cn>
By whitequark@whitequark.org

How to compile:
gcc -shared -o libsublime-imfix.so sublime_imfix.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` -fPIC
How to use:
LD_PRELOAD=./libsublime-imfix.so sublime_text

Changes:
2014 06-09
1, Fix cursor position update for sublime text 3.
2, Combine the codes from whitequark(fix for xim immodule) and add cursor update support for XIM immodule.
*/

/*for RTLD_NEXT*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <gdk/gdkx.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>

#ifdef VERBOSE
#define DEBUG(fmt, ...) do { \
FILE* err = fopen("/tmp/libsublime-immethod-fix.log", "a"); \
if (err) { \
fprintf(err, fmt, __VA_ARGS__); \
fclose(err); \
} \
} while(0)
#else
#define DEBUG(fmt, ...)
#endif


typedef GdkSegment GdkRegionBox;

struct _GdkRegion
{
long size;
long numRects;
GdkRegionBox *rects;
GdkRegionBox extents;
};

GtkIMContext *local_context;


//this func is interposed to support cursor position update.
void
gdk_region_get_clipbox (const GdkRegion *region,
GdkRectangle *rectangle)
{
g_return_if_fail (region != NULL);
g_return_if_fail (rectangle != NULL);

rectangle->x = region->extents.x1;
rectangle->y = region->extents.y1;
rectangle->width = region->extents.x2 - region->extents.x1;
rectangle->height = region->extents.y2 - region->extents.y1;
GdkRectangle rect;
rect.x = rectangle->x;
rect.y = rectangle->y;
rect.width = 0;
rect.height = rectangle->height;
//The caret width is 2 in sublime text 2
//And is 1 in sublime text 3.
//Maybe sometimes we will make a mistake, but for most of the time, it should be the caret.
if((rectangle->width == 2 || rectangle->width == 1) && GTK_IS_IM_CONTEXT(local_context)) {
gtk_im_context_set_cursor_location(local_context, rectangle);
}
}

//this is needed, for example, if you input something in file dialog and return back the edit area
//context will lost, so here we set it again.
static GdkFilterReturn event_filter (GdkXEvent *xevent, GdkEvent *event, gpointer im_context)
{
XEvent *xev = (XEvent *)xevent;
if(xev->type == KeyRelease && GTK_IS_IM_CONTEXT(im_context)) {
GdkWindow * win = g_object_get_data(G_OBJECT(im_context),"window");
if(GDK_IS_WINDOW(win))
gtk_im_context_set_client_window(im_context, win);
}
return GDK_FILTER_CONTINUE;
}

void gtk_im_context_set_client_window (GtkIMContext *context,
GdkWindow *window)
{
GtkIMContextClass *klass;
g_return_if_fail (GTK_IS_IM_CONTEXT (context));
klass = GTK_IM_CONTEXT_GET_CLASS (context);
if (klass->set_client_window)
klass->set_client_window (context, window);

//below is our interposed codes to save the context to local_context.
if(!GDK_IS_WINDOW (window))
return;
g_object_set_data(G_OBJECT(context),"window",window);
int width = gdk_window_get_width(window);
int height = gdk_window_get_height(window);
if(width != 0 && height !=0) {
gtk_im_context_focus_in(context);
local_context = context;
}
//only add this event_filter when using 'fcitx' immodule.
//for xim immodule, this function is as same as original from gtk2.
const gchar * immodule = g_getenv("GTK_IM_MODULE");
if(immodule && !strcmp(immodule, "fcitx")) {
gdk_window_add_filter (window, event_filter, context);
}
}


/*below codes is from whitequark, fix for xim immodule*/

/* See gtkimcontextxim.c */
GType gtk_type_im_context_xim = 0;

#define GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM (gtk_type_im_context_xim)
#define GTK_IM_CONTEXT_XIM(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST ((obj), GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM, GtkIMContextXIM))
#define GTK_IM_CONTEXT_XIM_CLASS(klass) (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_CAST ((klass), GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM, GtkIMContextXIMClass))
#define GTK_IS_IM_CONTEXT_XIM(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_TYPE ((obj), GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM))
#define GTK_IS_IM_CONTEXT_XIM_CLASS(klass) (G_TYPE_CHECK_CLASS_TYPE ((klass), GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM))
#define GTK_IM_CONTEXT_XIM_GET_CLASS(obj) (G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS ((obj), GTK_TYPE_IM_CONTEXT_XIM, GtkIMContextXIMClass))

typedef struct _GtkIMContextXIM GtkIMContextXIM;
typedef struct _GtkIMContextXIMClass GtkIMContextXIMClass;

struct _GtkIMContextXIMClass
{
GtkIMContextClass parent_class;
};

typedef struct _StatusWindow StatusWindow;
typedef struct _GtkXIMInfo GtkXIMInfo;

struct _GtkIMContextXIM
{
GtkIMContext object;

GtkXIMInfo *im_info;

gchar *locale;
gchar *mb_charset;

GdkWindow *client_window;
GtkWidget *client_widget;

/* The status window for this input context; we claim the
* * status window when we are focused and have created an XIC
* */
StatusWindow *status_window;

gint preedit_size;
gint preedit_length;
gunichar *preedit_chars;
XIMFeedback *feedbacks;

gint preedit_cursor;

XIMCallback preedit_start_callback;
XIMCallback preedit_done_callback;
XIMCallback preedit_draw_callback;
XIMCallback preedit_caret_callback;

XIMCallback status_start_callback;
XIMCallback status_done_callback;
XIMCallback status_draw_callback;

XIMCallback string_conversion_callback;

XIC ic;

guint filter_key_release : 1;
guint use_preedit : 1;
guint finalizing : 1;
guint in_toplevel : 1;
guint has_focus : 1;
};

static GClassInitFunc orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init;
static GType (*orig_g_type_module_register_type)(GTypeModule *,
GType, const gchar *,
const GTypeInfo *, GTypeFlags);
static gboolean (*orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress)(GtkIMContext *context,
GdkEventKey *event);

static gboolean
hook_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress(GtkIMContext *context, GdkEventKey *event) {
GtkIMContextXIM *im_context_xim = GTK_IM_CONTEXT_XIM(context);
if (!im_context_xim->client_window) {
DEBUG("im_context_xim == %p\n", im_context_xim);
DEBUG("event->window == %p\n", event->window);

gtk_im_context_set_client_window(context, event->window);
}

return orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress(context, event);
}

static void
hook_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init (GtkIMContextXIMClass *class) {
orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init(class, NULL); /* wat? */

GtkIMContextClass *im_context_class = GTK_IM_CONTEXT_CLASS (class);

assert(!orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress);
orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress = im_context_class->filter_keypress;
im_context_class->filter_keypress = hook_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress;
DEBUG("orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress: %p\n",
orig_gtk_im_context_xim_filter_keypress);
}

GType
g_type_module_register_type (GTypeModule *module,
GType parent_type,
const gchar *type_name,
const GTypeInfo *type_info,
GTypeFlags flags) {
if (!orig_g_type_module_register_type) {
orig_g_type_module_register_type = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "g_type_module_register_type");
assert(orig_g_type_module_register_type);
}

if (type_name && !strcmp(type_name, "GtkIMContextXIM")) {
assert(!orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init);
orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init = type_info->class_init;

assert(sizeof(GtkIMContextXIM) == type_info->instance_size);

const GTypeInfo hook_im_context_xim_info =
{
type_info->class_size,
type_info->base_init,
type_info->base_finalize,
(GClassInitFunc) hook_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init,
type_info->class_finalize,
type_info->class_data,
type_info->instance_size,
type_info->n_preallocs,
type_info->instance_init,
};

DEBUG("orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init: %p\n", orig_gtk_im_context_xim_class_init);

gtk_type_im_context_xim =
orig_g_type_module_register_type(module, parent_type, type_name,
&hook_im_context_xim_info, flags);

return gtk_type_im_context_xim;
}

return orig_g_type_module_register_type(module, parent_type, type_name, type_info, flags);
}

Then compile it.

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gcc -shared -o libsublime-imfix.so sublime_imfix.c  `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` -fPIC

You will get a file called libsublime-imfix.so, put it in $HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/. In fact, it doesn’t matter where you put it, as long as you specify the right location of it in the following code. Put the following code in your ~/.bashrc file.

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# sublime fcitx fix
alias sublime='LD_PRELOAD=$HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/libsublime-imfix.so /usr/bin/subl > /dev/null 2>&1 &'

Save, re-source it.

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. ~/.bashrc

Type in sublime in your terminal and you are good to go!

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