Disable fcitx5 waybar status icon

[sharif221]

Based on what I saw in the omarchy it seems the fcitx5 installed in barebone state for compatibility reasons or it just required by something.

The status icon in waybar is just a useless thing that sits there.
Omarchy don't handle languages in fcitx5, it uses hyperland input.conf

So we can just get rid of that status icon safely.

[sharif221]

we can fix that in 2 ways:

1. Visual --> we just mod the waybar confg to ignore fcitx5 tray
2. get rid of notificationitem.conf inside /usr/share/fcitx5/addon or rename it to something like notificationitem.conf.disabled

i couldnt find the config file for fcixt5 to do something like disabling the notificationitem that calls Status Notifier addon in .config directory.

if anybody figured that out please tell

[HegewaldK]

I also don't see the benefit behind using fcitx5 and I just completely removed it. With the language setting in Hyprland input.conf it's kind of useless if you just use one language most of the time.

[Dieterbe]

I also don't see the benefit behind using fcitx5 and I just completely removed it

I think it's used for things like quick typing emoji's (via the capslock bind), inserting your name and email, etc

agree on the icon being useless. worse, it's misleading because it makes you think you can change the layout with it, but it's configured to not make any actual changes. this left me a bad first impression when i started omarchy for the first time, and i suspect i'm not the only one.