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An input method is a program that allows any data, such as keyboard strokes or mouse movements, to be received as input. It is used for entering special characters and symbols that usually not found on input device (keyboard).

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I am new to Fedora and KDE, and I am trying to install a Chinese IME through fcitx5 on my Fedora 42 KDA Plasma. As I follow instructions given on other Reddit threads, I got stuck on the input method ...
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Looking at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose, I see the following lines defined: <Multi_key> <less> <equal> : "≤" U2264 # LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO <Multi_key&...
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I'd like to perform some actions when the user requests a keyboard layout change (via ibus/setxkbmap/wayland/gnome/plasma/…), notably in order to disable KMonad (otherwise the user-defined layout ...
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I am trying to create Linux input device driver and to test things I took at existing gpio-matrix-keypad driver. Using print I know that input_report_key() is called with correct keycode, but it doesn'...
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I use MX21.3 + KDE plasma(v5.20.5). For my native language bangla, I prefer uni gitanjali layout. After I enable it from the “system settings”, I run into a problem. It doesn’t have a আ key. Instead, ...
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I'd like to write an application that emulates jeopardy buzzers. There would be one host computer connected to N mice, which act as each player's buzzers. What would be the simplest way to write this ...
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My (native Linux) Steam client is showing an Xbox 360 controller, though I don't have one, and none have been in my home (and it's a desktop, so seeing it outside can be ruled out). I tried listing ...
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I installed ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3. I also installed ibus-unikey and ibus-bamboo, which are packages required for typing in Vietnamese. I added the following lines in ~/.bashrc export GTK_IM_MODULE=...
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I've had to leave xim behind because of various graphical issues. And I'm trying to set up ibus but having trouble getting it to cycle through keyboards. Other info: Debian Testing Awesome WM This ...
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I need to pilot an X application with my PC, to take scientific measuring. I have an xdotool script which does the job pretty well, but while it's running, I cannot use my PC, which is frustrating and ...
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I was using ibus on Arch Linux (neofetch below for reference) and it was working perfectly - I was able to switch between languages using my keyboard shortcut, and dead keys were working perfectly. ...
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There are some applications that use strange/inconvenient user interaction and that is impossible to edit. I want to remap a combination of a keyboard and mouse event to another combination of ...
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Let me start by saying that I'm well aware that there's a keyboard layout for Ancient Greek. My issue is that Ancient Greek is a diacritic heavy language, and you can get up to 3 diacritics on a ...
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I have an arcade controller I bought so my dying dad can play old school games. but it does not show up under xinput, where it does show up under lsusb Bus 003 Device 021: ID 0079:187c DragonRise Inc. ...
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I have switched to the Pinyin input method,then to create new folder. Environment: debian@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux debian@...
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