Nimf is an input method framework which has a module-based client-server
architecture in which an application acts as a client and communicates
synchronously with the Nimf server via a Unix socket.
Nimf provides:
* Input Method Server:
* nimf-daemon
* Language Engines:
* Chinese (alpha stage, based on sunpinyin, libchewing, librime)
* Japanese (alpha stage, based on anthy)
* Korean (based on libhangul)
* Service Modules:
* Indicator (based on appindicator)
* Wayland
* XIM (based on IMdkit)
* Client Modules:
* GTK+2, GTK+3, Qt4, Qt5
* Settings tool to configure the Nimf:
* nimf-settings
* Development files:
* C library and headers
Project Homepage:
* https://github.com/cogniti/nimf
* https://cogniti.github.io/nimf
License
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Nimf is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Nimf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Configure
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* For GNOME Shell, use 3rd party gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1031/topicons/
https://github.com/phocean/TopIcons-plus
* Configure Hangul/Hanja key if you use a keyboard
without hardware Hangul/Hanja key
Use xkb-data >= 2.14, then
Select "Right Alt as Hangul, right Ctrl as Hanja" or
"Right Ctrl as Hangul, right Alt as Hanja" from gnome-tweak-tool.
Troubleshoot
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* Failed to load shared library
Check /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ for /usr/local/lib path
Debugging
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nimf-daemon --debug
tail -f /var/log/daemon.log
export GTK_IM_MODULE="nimf"
export QT4_IM_MODULE="nimf"
export QT_IM_MODULE="nimf"
export XMODIFIERS="@im=nimf"
export G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=nimf
gedit # or kate for Qt
References
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* API
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libX11/specs/XIM/xim.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/ime-api/
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/input_ime
https://docs.enlightenment.org/stable/efl/group__Ecore__IMF__Lib__Group.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qinputcontext.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qinputmethod.html
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+
* Language Engines (alphabetically listed)
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/anthy.git
https://github.com/chewing/libchewing
https://github.com/choehwanjin/libhangul
https://github.com/rime/librime
https://github.com/sunpinyin/sunpinyin
* Implementations
https://github.com/choehwanjin/nabi
https://github.com/choehwanjin/imhangul
https://github.com/choehwanjin/ibus-hangul
https://github.com/ibus/ibus
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx
https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx-qt5
https://github.com/uim/uim