OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer for inputmethod

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

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

Contributing

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

Recipes

fcitx5 and fcitx5-*

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

fcitx and fcitx-*

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

ibus and ibus-*

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.

gtk-wayland-textinputv1

Enable text input on GTK applications on Weston.

Quick Start

Fcitx5 on Weston

How to build

• Clone this layer: git clone [email protected]: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

How to run

• 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

How to input on GTK application on 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

How to use with applications

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