IngameIME_Linux

A library for X Input Method(XIM) & Wayland Input Method(Wayland IM)

How to use?

See IngameIME-Common

What can you do with it?

• Activate/Deactivate Input Method

• Get available InputMethods and KeyboardLayouts in system，which are also called InputProcessors

• Get the profile of the InputProcessor, which contains its name and the locale of the language this processor for

• Get and Set active InputProcessor

• Get PreEdit and CandidateList infomation during the Composition

Reference

X Input Method

• https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Locales_and_Internationalized_Text_Functions

Wayland Input Method

• https://wayland.app/protocols/text-input-unstable-v3

Limitations

XIM & Wayland IM

• Can not fetch CandidateList
• Global::getInputProcessors just return the active inputprocessor
• Can not fetch the localized name of the inputprocessor
• Can not fetch the localized name of the locale
• InputProcessor::setActivated() has no effect
• No inputprocessor change notify callback nor input modes

XIM (deprecated on XWayland Environment)

• No Commit notify callback
• No PreEdit & PreEditRect callback (Such function has implemented, but it takes no effect on XWayland Env)