kime

Korean IME

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Changelog

Why kime

• Well tested input engine
• Very fast
• Low memory footprint
• Write in mostly Rust no segfaults
• Allow custom layouts

Supported frontend

• XIM
• Wayland
• GTK2
• GTK3
• GTK4
• Qt5
• Qt6

Installation

Arch Linux

you can install from AUR package kime for latest release or kime-git if you want to build from source.

Debian

you can install from .deb file at releases tab.

Build from source

make sure cargo and other dependencies listed below are installed before build.

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

scripts/build.sh -ar

Now all files are in build/out if you want manual install go ahead

you can also use scripts/install.sh <install-prefix> useful script for packaging

and there is scripts/release-deb.sh <deb-out-path> it make deb file.

GTK

you may don't need to do this when you install with package

because most distros doing this themselves.

# If you install gtk2
sudo gtk-query-immodules-2.0 --update-cache
# If you install gtk3
sudo gtk-query-immodules-3.0 --update-cache
# If you install gtk4
sudo gio-querymodules /usr/lib/gtk-4.0/4.0.0/immodules

Configuration

Debian-like

Set input method kime in language setting

Other

Add the following to your init script

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

and run kime-xim or kime-wayland binary after session initialized

if you use X it could be done in .xprofile

also run kime-indicator when you want show hangul status with appindicator

read CONFIGURATION.md for detailed options.

Dependencies

Note that you only need deps what you need for example, if you don't use qt6 it won't required.

• gtk2
• gtk3
• gtk4
• qt5
• qt6
• libappindicator-gtk3 (indicator)
• libxcb (xim)
• cairo (xim)