This layer provides recipes for multilingual input methods used with OpenEmbedded and/or Yocto.

This layer depends on meta-openembedded, poky, and qt5 layers.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitLab at https://gitlab.com/clear-code/meta-inputmethod.

Fcitx5 and its modules. Mainly for Wayland environment.

• fcitx5: Input method framework
• fcitx5-anthy: Japanese input method
• fcitx5-chewing: Traditional Chinese (Chewing) input method
• fcitx5-chinese-addons: Simplified Chinese (Pinyin and table) input methods
• fcitx5-hangul: Korean (Hangul) input method
• fcitx5-m17n: Multilingual input methods

Fcitx4 and its modules. Mainly for X11 environment.

• fcitx: Input method framework and Chinese (Pinyin and table) input methods
• fcitx-anthy: Japanese input method
• fcitx-chewing: Traditional Chinese (Chewing) input method
• fcitx-hangul: Korean (Hangul) input method
• fcitx-m17n: Multilingual input methods

Although we don't yet publish them, we already have these recipes internally. Please contact us if you need them. We'll ensure to publish them if there are actual needs.

FYI: On our test, Fcitx was superior to IBus at many points.

Enable text input on GTK applications on Weston.

• Clone this layer: git clone git@gitlab.com:clear-code/meta-inputmethod.git
• Add meta-inputmethod to you bblayers.conf: bitbake-layers add-layer /path/to/meta-inputmethod
• Add following lines to your local.conf:

# Japanese
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " fcitx5-anthy          source-han-sans-jp-fonts "
# Traditional Chinese
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " fcitx5-chewing        source-han-sans-tw-fonts "
# Simplified Chinese
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " fcitx5-chinese-addons source-han-sans-cn-fonts "
# Korean
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " fcitx5-hangul         source-han-sans-kr-fonts "
# Other launguages
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " fcitx5-m17n "
# If you need GTK on Weston
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " gtk-wayland-textinputv1 "

• Build: bitbake core-image-weston

• Add following lines to your /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini

[input-method]
path=/usr/bin/fcitx5

• Add following lines to your /etc/xdg/fcitx5/profile

[Groups/0]
Name=Default
Default Layout=us
DefaultIM=anthy

[Groups/0/Items/0]
Name=keyboard-us

[Groups/0/Items/1]
Name=anthy

[Groups/0/Items/2]
Name=chewing

[Groups/0/Items/3]
Name=pinyin

[Groups/0/Items/4]
Name=hangul

• Run weston

Set a environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE=wltextinputv1 if you need to use Fcitx5 on GTK applications on Weston:

e.g.)

$ GTK_IM_MODULE=wltextinputv1 gtk3-demo

Fcitx5 provided by this recipe is confirmed with weston-editor and chromium-ozone-wayland. It will also work with other applications that supports text-input-v1 protocol.

GTK applications are supported via gtk-wayland-textinputv1 as described above.

Qt applications aren't confirmed yet.

You can enable input method by Ctrl + Space on such applications, and switch input methods by Ctrl + Shift.

If DBus's session bus is enabled, you can switch IMs also by fcitx5-remote command. e.g.) fcitx5-remote -s anthy