After re-installing my Arch setup from scratch and installing my favorite desktop environment, KDE Plasma, again, I realized that I was missing one specific feature: holding down the “regular” keys to get a selection menu for accented/alternative characters.
An example? One of my metamours has the à inside their name. Unfortunately, I’m lazy and out of this laziness I first chose the regular à . Although I think that it’s not a big deal, I still find it disrespectful.
Luckily, I found
Nate Graham’s blog post
about said feature really quick. I’ve opened vim, edited /etc/environment and added the
QT_IM_MODULE=plasmaim line.
Voila, now it’s enabled and I can write the name of my metamour as intended! 😄
Note (2023-08-14): It looks like the above environment variable
breaks with the so-called “dead keys”, e.g.
^. Therefore, I just set the QT_IM_MODULE` to the empty string, in order to have my dead keys on
Wayland again.