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Changelog

Why kime

• Well tested input engine
• Blazing fast
• Small memory footprint
• Written in Rust, no segmentation fault
• Custom layouts

Have a question?

Please contact us on Discord or create github issue.

Supported frontend

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

Installation

NixOS

Add this code to your configuration.nix

i18n = {
  defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
  inputMethod = {
    enabled = "kime";
    kime.config = {
      indicator.icon_color = "White";
    };
  };
};

Arch Linux

Latest release of kime is available on kime AUR package.

Developing version is available on kime-git.

Debian, Ubuntu

.deb package is available on github releases tab.

Gentoo

eselect repository add riey git https://github.com/Riey/overlay
eselect repository enable riey
emaint sync -r riey
emerge -av kime

Build from source

Docker

Building with docker does not requires any other dependencies.

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

docker build --file build-docker/<distro path>/Dockerfile --tag kime-build:git .
docker run --name kime kime-build:git
docker cp kime:/opt/kime-out/kime.tar.xz .
# if you want to build deb package try this command instead
# docker cp kime:/opt/kime-out/kime_amd64.deb .

Manual build

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

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

scripts/build.sh -ar

Every files needed for manual install is in build/out directory.

scripts/install.sh <install-prefix> can be used for packaging.

scripts/release-deb.sh <deb-out-path> can be used for packaging deb package.

GTK

Typically, this step is not necessary when kime is installed from binary package because most Linux distros does these steps themselves.

# for gtk3
sudo gtk-query-immodules-3.0 --update-cache
# for gtk4
sudo gio-querymodules /usr/lib/gtk-4.0/4.0.0/immodules

Development

C/C++

Run ./scripts/generate_properties.sh for using intellisense C/C++ in vscode

Configuration

environment variables setup

Debian-like

Set input method as kime in language setting

Others

Append following lines to your init script

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

if you use X, append above lines to file ~/.xprofile

Start additional server

kime.desktop file is installed in /etc/xdg/autostart when installing kime.

Configuration

Read CONFIGURATION.md for detail options.

Dependencies

Run time

These dependencies are optional depending on your environments. For example, qt6 is not required when it is not used.

• gtk3
• gtk4
• qt5
• qt6
• libdbus (indicator)
• xcb (candidate)
• fontconfig (xim)
• freetype (xim)

Build time (you don't need this on running compiled binary)

Required

• cmake
• cargo
• libclang
• pkg-config

Optional

• gtk3
• gtk4
• qtbase5-private
• qtbase6-private
• libdbus
• xcb
• fontconfig
• freetype