IBus Engine For GoVarnam
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.
Installation
- Install and setup IBus
- Install GoVarnam
- Download a release from Releases
- Extract the zip file
- Run the install script in the extracted folder (need sudo):
sudo ./install.sh install
- Restart ibus (no sudo)
ibus restart
- Go to IBus settings, add Varnam input method.
- Maybe set an easy to use switch key to switch between languages
To uninstall:
sudo ./install.sh uninstall
Development
Building
For Ubuntu 18.04 & others with old GTK versions, special build params are required:
go build -tags pango_1_42,gtk_3_22 .
For others, simply do :
go build .
Setup
To just try it out:
go run . -standalone
To use it system wide:
go build .
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)
