An easy way to type Indian languages on GNU/Linux systems.
goibus - golang implementation of libibus
Thanks to sarim and haunt98 for developing goibus from which this IBus engine is developed.
See instructions in website: https://varnamproject.github.io/download/linux
- Install dependencies:
sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libcairo2-dev libglib2.0-dev- Build
make ubuntu-14
The preferences dialog depends on GTK. The above command will build for GTK 3.10 which means it'll work on Ubuntu 14.04 and later versions.
To just try it out:
go run . -standalone
To use it system wide:
make ubuntu-18
sudo ln -s $(realpath varnam-ibus-engine) /usr/local/bin/varnam-ibus-engine
./varnam-ibus-engine -xml govarnam.xml
sudo ln -s $(realpath govarnam.xml) /usr/share/ibus/component/govarnam.xml
# Copy icon
sudo ln -s $(realpath varnam.png) /usr/local/share/varnam/ibus/icons/varnam.png
# Restart ibus
ibus restart
Now, go to ibus settings to add the input method. Currently it's just for Malayalam.
(Note that we use varnam-ibus-engine as executable name)