Cannot use fcitx5 on Tor-browser, also the --allow-remote flag do not work

phaeseeKe5Ee · December 5, 2023, 9:02am

Hi, I am a beginner just testing NixOS for a few days.
I’ve encountered two problems related to Tor-browser.

First, I cannot type anything other than English with fcitx5 in tor-browser.
Other browsers like firefox and librewolf are working fine.

Second, passing the --allow-remote flag to tor-browser never work, with error Error: argument --no-remote is invalid when argument --allow-remote is specified. It has no problem in arch linux.

What should I do?

phaeseeKe5Ee · December 8, 2023, 1:56pm

I can now use --allow-remote by copying the default.nix of tor-browser in nixpkgs to somewhere and remove this line:

github.com

NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/096aa080653a60adaa80cd98b4056fd82cfdd734/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/tor-browser/default.nix#L428


      
            TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD="\''${TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD:-}" \
            TOR_SOCKS_HOST="\''${TOR_SOCKS_HOST:-}" \
            TOR_SOCKS_PORT="\''${TOR_SOCKS_PORT:-}" \
            \
            FONTCONFIG_FILE="$FONTCONFIG_FILE" \
            \
            LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$libPath" \
            \
            "$TBB_IN_STORE/firefox" \
              --class "Tor Browser" \
              -no-remote \
              -profile "\$HOME/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default" \
              "\''${@}"
          EOF
          chmod +x $out/bin/tor-browser
          
          
# Easier access to docs
          mkdir -p $out/share/doc
          ln -s $TBB_IN_STORE/TorBrowser/Docs $out/share/doc/tor-browser
          
          
# Install .desktop item

Then install the custom tor-browser with this in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{
	environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
               # .....
               	(callPackage ./somewhere/default.nix { } )
        ];
}

I am still testing how to make fcitx5 work with tor-browser.