Amadeus Paulussen

I don't remember who asked me about the #bitwigstudio #keyboard input issue that I mentioned when I was still on #manjaro.

Today, I came across crash logs indicating that "ibus-x11" can crash when Bitwig Studio is run on a #wayland session, resulting in Bitwig Studio losing keyboard input capability.

I did not have this problem on #archlinux anymore because #ibus is not installed by default and must be installed separately.

Sep 20, 2025 at 3:16pmWeb
Show threadPatrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺Sep 20, 2025
@amadeus I use Fedora 42 and had the same problem with ibus crashing. A quick "fix" mentioned in the fediverse was to run 'ibus exit' before running Bitwig Studio and 'ibus start' after exiting Bitwig Studio.
Show threadAmadeus PaulussenSep 21, 2025
@plaimbock I will report this again to the BWS developers. There is another approach to this in which you start BWS specifically without ibus via environment variables. I'm on the phone now but can look it up and share later if you're interested.
Show threadAmadeus PaulussenSep 21, 2025
@plaimbock These are the environemtn variables I use to start Bitwig Studio without ibus:
GTK_IM_MODULE=none, QT_IM_MODULE=none, XMODIFIERS=@im=none
Show threadPatrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺Sep 21, 2025
@amadeus Thanks! 🙏