[WIP] experimental minimal wayland IME
No gui. Candidate are showed in text area. Cuz i really can not find a working native Chinese IME, so i made this.
Now everything is hardcoded, but i except it can be configured like dwm. It is overkill to add IPC or dynamic config in such a project, though, i am writing it with modularity in my mind.
It will not be too hard to add new input backend engine, enable it by pkgconf check and ifdef at compilation time.
- Make use you have rime installed
- Place your desired rime configuration files in ~/.config/wlpinyin/
- Rime's minimal example is a good place to start.
- Rime also provides automatic configuration scripts like brise and plum
git clone https://github.com/xhebox/wlpinyin
cd wlpinyin
meson build
ninja -C build
The wlpinyin binary will be placed in build/
Simply run ./build/wlpinyin.
With the default config, you can press left Control to switch between normal and pinyin input.
When in pinyin mode, start typing a word, if the program you are using is supported, an inline selector will appear.
For instance, with the input ta you will get:
ta <- [1]他 [2]她 [3]它 [4]塔 [5]牠
Rime will automatically order characters in the order in which you most use them, so your exact prompt may vary.
If you get an error along the lines of
sess: 0, msgtype: deploy, msg: start
sess: 0, msgtype: deploy, msg: failure
You are probably missing rime config files, see step 1 of Dependencies. If characters show up as boxes, also check your rime config. If you get an error saying that wlpinyin cannot find a file, check your rime config.
If wlpinyin works for you in most cases but not with certain programs, then you might notify the application developer. Applications such as Chromium are notorious for not working with many other input methods such as fcitx under ozone, under xwayland it should work fine though. Specifically, it is text-input-v3 protocol for applications and input-method-v2 for compositors. With these protocols supported, wlpinyin can be used.