Mozc
From the project home page:
- Mozc is a Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) designed for multi-platform such as Chromium OS, Windows, Mac and Linux. This open-source project originates from Google Japanese Input. Detailed differences between Mozc and Google Japanese Input are described in About Mozc (In short, Mozc does not have equivalent conversion quality to Google Japanese Input).
Installation
You can install mozcAUR (vanilla) using unofficial user repository or build yourself from AUR.
This package consists as follows:
Package | mozc | description |
---|---|---|
Group | mozc-im | |
Component | mozc | Server part of the Mozc |
ibus-mozc | IBus engine module | |
emacs-mozc | Mozc for Emacs (optional) |
Unofficial user repository
There is an unofficial user repository of Mozc. Add the following into your /etc/pacman.conf
:
[pnsft-pur] SigLevel = Optional TrustAll Server = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pnsft-aur/pur/$arch
And refresh package database. You can choose to install packages specifying group name as follows:
# pacman -S mozc-im
Or, specify package names directly. For example:
# pacman -S mozc ibus-mozc emacs-mozc
Using PKGBUILD
You can install from AUR as follows.
First, get mozcAUR tarball from AUR and edit the PKGBUILD if necessary.
$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mo/mozc/mozc.tar.gz $ tar xvf mozc.tar.gz $ cd mozc
If you will be using mozc.el on Emacs, uncomment _emacs_mozc
line.
## If you will be using mozc.el on Emacs, uncomment below. _emacs_mozc="yes"
Using fcitx
fcitx-mozc is the all in one Mozc package available in offical repository, dedicated to fcitx.
Make available Mozc
Restart X or IBus to enable use of Mozc.
Variants on AUR
Each packages consist as follows:
Package | mozc | mozc-svn | mozc-ut | description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Group | mozc-im | mozc-im-svn | mozc-im | |
Component | mozc | mozc-svn | mozc-ut | Server part of the Mozc |
ibus-mozc | ibus-mozc-svn | ibus-mozc-ut | IBus engine module (optional) | |
(uim-mozc) | uim-mozc-svn | uim-mozc-ut | uim plugin module (optional) | |
N/A | fcitx-mozc-svn | N/A | Fcitx module (optional) | |
emacs-mozc | emacs-mozc-svn | emacs-mozc-ut | Mozc for Emacs (optional) |
uim-mozc
Though mozcAUR adapts to only IBus input method framework, macuim provides uim-mozc plugin. uim-mozcAUR is for vanilla mozc and mozc-utAUR[broken link: package not found], mozc-svnAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] can build uim-mozc itself (see Input Japanese using uim). You can install uim-mozc from unofficial user repository as well as vanilla mozc.
mozc-ut
mozc-utAUR[broken link: package not found] comes with Mozc UT dictionary and can build uim-mozc. The dictionary adds over 350,000 words into original.
To build uim-mozc, edit PKGBUILD like follow, i,e. uncomment _uim_mozc=
line:
## If you will not be using ibus, comment out below. _ibus_mozc="yes" ## If you will be using uim, uncomment below. _uim_mozc="yes" ## If applying patch for uim-mozc fails, try to uncomment below. #_kill_kill_line="yes" ## This will disable the 'kill-line' function of uim-mozc.
mozc-svn
mozc-svnAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] builds using the head of published svn repository and can build uim-mozc and fcitx-mozc plugin. You should not use mozc-svn unless you have any reason (e.g. for test).
Configuration
IBus
See also IBus for IBus configuration.
If you use Mozc by default, set it via ibus-setup:
$ ibus-setup
Choose Input Method tab and move Mozc to top of the list.
You can switch input method by Alt+Shift_L
(by IBus default).
uim
Configure uim preferences by running :
$ uim-pref-gtk (Or, uim-pref-gtk3/uim-pref-qt4)
which brings forth a GUI.
Choose your preferring input method as 'Default input method'.
Mozc for Emacs
You can use mozc.el (mozc-mode) to input Japanese via LEIM (Library of Emacs Input Method). To use mozc-mode, write the following into your .emacs.d/init.el
or some other file for Emacs customizing:
(require 'mozc) ; or (load-file "/path/to/mozc.el") (setq default-input-method "japanese-mozc")
mozc.el provides "overlay" mode in the styles of showing candidates (from mozc r77) which shows a candidate window in box style close to the point. If you want to use it by default, add the following:
(setq mozc-candidate-style 'overlay)
C-\
(toggle-input-method) enables and disables use of mozc-mode.
Disabling XIM on Emacs
When you are using input method on your desktop and assigning activation/deactivation of input method to C-SPC, you will be not able to use C-SPC/C-@ as set-mark-command on Emacs. To avoid this problem, add the following into your ~/.Xresources
or ~/.Xdefaults
. xim will be disabled on Emacs.
Emacs*UseXIM: false
Tips
Confirming Mozc version which you are using now
Type "ばーじょん" ("version") and convert it while activating Mozc. The version number of Mozc will be shown in the candidate list like follows:
ばーじょん
バージョン ヴァージョン ばーじょん Mozc-1.6.1187.102 ⇐ Current version of Mozc ...
Launching Mozc tools from command line
The followings are commands to launch mozc tools.
- Mozc property:
$ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=config_dialog
- Mozc Dictionary Tool:
$ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=dictionary_tool
- Mozc Word Register:
$ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=word_register_dialog
- Mozc Hand Writing:
$ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=hand_writing
- Mozc Character Palette:
$ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_tool --mode=character_palette
Use CapsLock as Eisu_toggle key on ASCII layout keyboard
All of the preset keymap styles of Mozc, command ToggleAlphanumericMode on Composition mode is assigned to Eisu
(Eisu_toggle), Hiragana/Katakana
or Muhenkan
key, but the ASCII keyboard has none of them.
One of the solution for it is to use CapsLock key as Eisu_toggle (Mozc does not recognize CapsLock key as of r124). The following is way to assign the Eisu_toggle to CapsLock
(without any modifier keys) and the Caps_Lock to Shift+CapsLock
, like OADG keyboard layout.
Edit the ~/.Xmodmap
as follows:
keycode 66 = Eisu_toggle Caps_Lock clear Lock
Then, restart X or run xmodmap to apply immediately:
$ xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
Troubleshooting
Building Mozc fails (process is killed)
If build process is failed with like the following messages:
... /bin/sh: line 1: xxxx killed ... make: *** [xxx/xxx...] error 137 ...
Make sure whether you have run out of memory.
New version of Mozc does not appear though I upgraded Mozc and restarted X or IBus (not rebooted)
Old version of Mozc may be still on your memory. Try to kill existing mozc_server process:
$ killall mozc_server