diff --git a/users/guanranwang/home-manager/nixos/sway.nix b/users/guanranwang/home-manager/nixos/sway.nix
index 475cf20..eefa48d 100644
--- a/users/guanranwang/home-manager/nixos/sway.nix
+++ b/users/guanranwang/home-manager/nixos/sway.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   config,
   pkgs,
+  lib,
   ...
 }: {
   programs.fish.loginShellInit = ''
@@ -9,6 +10,11 @@
     end
   '';
 
+  home.sessionVariables = {
+    # TODO: what is the correct way to unset this
+    GTK_IM_MODULE = lib.mkForce ""; # use text-input-v3
+  };
+
   wayland.windowManager.sway = {
     enable = true;
     extraOptions = ["--unsupported-gpu" "-D" "noscanout"];