Fcitx5
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Fcitx5 is the under development successor of Fcitx.
Contents
Installation
Input method engines
Chinese
- fcitx5-chinese-addons contains addons related to Chinese, including IME previous bundled inside fcitx4.
- fcitx5-rime, based on schemas from the Rime IME project.
- fcitx5-chewing is a popular Zhuyin input engine for Traditional Chinese based on libchewing.
Other languages
- fcitx5-anthy, a popular Japanese input engine. However, it is not actively developed anymore.
- fcitx5-hangul, for typing Korean hangul, based on libhangul.
- fcitx5-unikey, for typing Vietnamese characters.
Input method module
To obtain a better experience, you should install the following modules as you need, without them, the input method may work on most applications but you may experience input method hang up, preview window screen location error or no preview error.
- For Qt5 programs, install fcitx5-qt.
- For GTK programs, install fcitx5-gtk.
- For Qt4 programs, install fcitx5-qt4-gitAUR.
Others
Configuration
GUI configuration tools
Install the kcm-fcitx5 package.
Note: fcitx5 developer made it clear that gtk config tool will not be developed, and kcm-fcitx5 does not introduce too many dependencies.