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

This layer depends on meta-openembedded and poky layers.

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

Fcitx5 and its modules.

• 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

We also develop an on-screen virtual keyboard UI for Fcitx5: https://github.com/clear-code/fcitx5-virtualkeyboard-ui

This virtual keyboard is already used internally and provided to selected customers together with this layer, but its recipe is not included in the public repository.

If you are interested in using it with Yocto/OpenEmbedded, please contact us.

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 support 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