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• Well tested input engine
• Blazing fast
• Small memory footprint
• Written in Rust, no segmentation fault
• Custom layouts

Please contact us on Discord or create github issue.

• XIM
• Wayland
• GTK3
• GTK4
• Qt5
• Qt6

Add this code to your configuration.nix

i18n = {
  defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
  inputMethod = {
    enable = true;
    type = "kime";
    kime.iconColor = "White";
    };
  };
};

Latest release of kime is available on kime AUR package.

Developing version is available on kime-git.

.deb package is available on github releases tab.

The unofficial package is being maintained on Fedora Copr.

dnf copr enable toroidalfox/kime
dnf install kime # `kime-git` for bleeding edge

eselect repository add riey git https://github.com/Riey/overlay
eselect repository enable riey
emaint sync -r riey
emerge -av kime

zypper in kime

Building with docker does not requires any other dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/riey/kime
cd kime

docker build --file build-docker/<distro path>/Dockerfile --tag kime-build:git .
docker run --name kime kime-build:git
docker cp kime:/opt/kime-out/kime.tar.zst .
# if you want to build deb package try this command instead
# docker cp kime:/opt/kime-out/kime_amd64.deb .

Make sure that cargo, meson, ninja, and other dependencies listed below are installed before build.

git clone https://github.com/Riey/kime
cd kime

meson setup build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Enable/disable the frontends by toggling -Dgtk3=true, -Dqt5=false, etc.

Typically, this step is not necessary when kime is installed from binary package because most Linux distros does these steps themselves.

# for gtk3
sudo gtk-query-immodules-3.0 --update-cache
# for gtk4
sudo gio-querymodules /usr/lib/gtk-4.0/4.0.0/immodules

Set input method as kime in language setting

Append following lines to your init script

export GTK_IM_MODULE=kime
export QT_IM_MODULE=kime
export XMODIFIERS=@im=kime

if you use X, append above lines to file ~/.xprofile

kime's deb package integrates with im-config, but under Wayland the im-config selection is applied through /etc/profile.d/im-config_wayland.sh, and zsh never sources it because zsh does not read /etc/profile. Either:

• add emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile' to /etc/zsh/zprofile, or

• skip im-config and create ~/.config/environment.d/kime.conf containing:

  GTK_IM_MODULE=kime
  QT_IM_MODULE=kime
  XMODIFIERS=@im=kime
  

  This is shell-independent and is the correct way to set environment variables for Wayland sessions.

See #423.

kime.desktop file is installed in /etc/xdg/autostart when installing kime.

It is required to select kime daemon under System Settings > Input & Output > Keyboard > Virtual Keyboard. A logout and re-login is recommended afterwards.

Mutter implements neither zwp_input_method_v2 nor v1, so kime-wayland cannot attach in a GNOME Wayland session. GTK and Qt applications still work through kime's input method modules, but Wayland-native and sandboxed applications do not. Tracked in #422.

It is required to have the following lines in ~/.config/weston.ini

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

kime's GTK/Qt input method modules cannot be loaded inside snap or flatpak sandboxes: the sandbox bundles its own GTK/Qt runtime, so GTK_IM_MODULE=kime and QT_IM_MODULE=kime have nothing to load there. The most common case is Firefox, which Ubuntu 22.04+ preinstalls as a snap — use the mozilla.org build instead if you need Korean input.

On Wayland compositors that implement zwp_input_method_v2 (KDE Plasma, sway and other wlroots compositors), sandboxed applications that speak text-input-v3 still work through the compositor, so this mainly affects X11 sessions and GNOME. See #346 and #422.

Read CONFIGURATION.md for detail options.

These dependencies are optional depending on your environments. For example, qt6 is not required when it is not used.

• gtk3
• gtk4
• qt5
• qt6
• libdbus (indicator)
• xcb (candidate)
• fontconfig (xim)
• freetype (xim)
• libxkbcommon (wayland)

• meson
• ninja
• cargo
• libclang
• pkg-config

• gtk3
• gtk4
• qtbase5-private
• qtbase6-private
• libdbus
• xcb
• fontconfig
• freetype
• libxkbcommon