Category Archives: fcitx development

纯粹不吐不快

Posted on January 7, 2018 by csslayer

更新：好吧原文作者说是 “gnome control center”。 后文可以略过了。 http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?t=486270&p=3200398#p3200398 下面是原文 其余内容不论，我们单说第一句：「前一阵子 Ubuntu 的预设输入系统从 IBus 改为 Fcitx，但因后者不支持 gcc，搞得天下大乱，于是 Ubuntu 17.10 又换回 Ibus 了。 LZ 建议把 ibus 删除掉换成 fcitx，并不见得问题就消失了。」 不支持 gcc？？？黑人问号？？？ 其一、世界上绝大多数发行版，包括 ubuntu 都是默认 gcc 编译器。debian 的迁移到 clang 的进程虽然一直有提但是绝对还没有完成，而且也只是测试是否「可以编译」，作为 debian 下游的 ubuntu 也显然还没有迁移到非 gcc 编译器。打包 … Continue reading →

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The Road to Fcitx 5: 5. Good news for people who use multiple display server

Posted on December 22, 2017 by csslayer

A big refactor in fcitx 5 is to enable it to support for multiple display server. This is not limited to X11 + wayland, but it means you can use fcitx with multiple X11 server. While such functionality may have … Continue reading →

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Road to Fcitx 5: 4. Compatibility for different im modules.

Posted on November 11, 2017 by csslayer

I have been always care about the compatibility. Fcitx 5 will be able to type with either fcitx 4’s im module, or fcitx 5’s im module. Fcitx 5’s im module will announce itself to accept both “fcitx5” and “fcitx”. Even … Continue reading →

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A case study: how to compile a Fcitx platforminputcontext plugin for a proprietary software that uses Qt 5

Posted on November 8, 2017 by csslayer

Due to the fact, that Qt 5 does not support XIM, the only way to type with fcitx under Qt is to use platforminputcontext plugin. The problem is that for some proprietary software like mathematica, it is impossible to use … Continue reading →

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The Road to Fcitx 5: 3. You can (NOT) type on wayland (properly).

Posted on November 6, 2017 by csslayer

With a few recent changes on Fcitx 5, Fcitx can now be used to type on Wayland. (Even the window is rendered with EGL! .. ok this is not important) And as of today, I’d say it is the first and … Continue reading →

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