# Keyman for Linux ## Projects - [keyman-config](../../linux/keyman-config) - km-config and some other tools to install, uninstall and view information about Keyman keyboard packages. - [ibus-keyman](../../linux/ibus-keyman) - IBUS integration to use .kmp Keyman keyboards - [core](../../core) - common keyboardprocessor library See [license information](../../linux/LICENSE.md) about licensing. ## Linux Requirements/Setup - It is helpful to be using the [packages.sil.org](http://packages.sil.org) repo - Install packages required for building and developing Keyman for Linux ```bash sudo apt install cdbs debhelper libx11-dev autotools-dev build-essential \ dh-autoreconf flex bison libibus-1.0-dev python3-setuptools meson \ libjson-glib-dev libgtk-3-dev libxml2-utils help2man python3-lxml \ python3-magic python3-numpy python3-pil python3-pip python3-qrcode \ python3-requests python3-requests-cache python3 python3-gi dconf-cli \ dconf-editor cargo python3-dbus gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 ibus libglib2.0-bin \ liblocale-gettext-perl xvfb xserver-xephyr metacity mutter ``` ## Compiling from Command Line ### Build script #### Installing for ibus to use ibus-keyman - The process to build and install everything is: - `make reconf` to create the build system and set the version - `make fullbuild` to configure and build - `sudo make install` to install to `/usr/local` - Some of the files must be installed to `/usr/share/` so `make install` must be run as `sudo`. To do this run `sudo make install` - This will install to `/usr/local` - and `/usr/share/ibus/component/keyman.xml` and `/usr/share/keyman/icons` - If you already have the ibus-keyman package installed then it will move the file `/usr/share/ibus/component/keyman.xml` to `/usr/share/doc/ibus-keyman/` - run `sudo make uninstall` to uninstall everything and put it back again #### Tmp install Used by TC for validating PRs Run `make tmpinstall` to build and install **keyboardprocessor** and **ibus-keyman** to `/tmp/keyman` This is only for testing the build, not for running **ibus-keyman** in ibus ### Manually - **ibus-keyman** requires headers and lib from **keyboardprocessor** So - **keyboardprocessor** must be built before **ibus-keyman** For each project run `./configure && make && make install`. You may prefer to create a different directory to build in and run configure from there e.g. ```bash mkdir ../build-ibus-keyman cd ../build-ibus-keyman ../ibus-keyman/configure make make install ``` ## Continuous integration Teamcity PR builds will run `make tmpinstall` Master builds run `make tmpinstall` and create source packages Nightly and release builds upload the most recent new master build to ## Building packages See [Linux packaging doc](packaging.md) for details on building Linux packages for Keyman. ## Testing ### keyman-config The unit tests can be run with the following command: ```bash cd linux/keyman-config ./run-tests.sh ``` ### ibus-keyman If you want to run the ibus-keyman tests with Wayland, you'll have to have `mutter` installed (version >=40). Otherwise you'll only be able to run the tests with X11. The tests can be run with the following command: ```bash cd linux/ibus-keyman/tests ./run-tests ``` The `run-tests` script accepts different arguments which can be seen with `./run-tests --help`. ## Running Keyman for Linux ### Setting up Ibus Ibus should be running on a default install of Ubuntu You may want to install extra packages to get other ibus input methods e.g **ibus-unikey** for VN Run `ibus restart` after installing any of them ### Getting a Keyman keyboard - After installing a Keyman keyboard usually ibus will be restarted automatically so that ibus will look for the new keyboard. If for whatever reason the keyboard doesn't show up in the system keyboard list, you can manually run `ibus restart`. ### Activating a Keyman keyboard Keyman tries to activate the keyboard automatically. If you want to activate it for a different language, you can do so by following the steps below. #### GNOME3 (focal and bionic default, also newer Ubuntu versions) - Click the connection/sound/shutdown section in the top right. Then the tools icon for Settings. - In `Language and Region` click `+` to add a keyboard. - Click the 3 dots expander then search for "Other" and click it - The Keyman keyboards should be listed here to choose - Use `Win-space` to switch between keyboards. #### Cinnamon (wasta default) - Open `Menu` and find `IBus Keyboards` (`IBus Preferences`) and run it - Make sure `Show icon on system tray` is checked - Select the tab `Input Method`. - Click `Add` to add a keyman keyboard. - Click the 3 dots expander then search for "Other" and click it - The Keyman keyboards should be listed here to choose #### MATE (alternative) - Open `System-> Preferences -> Other -> IBus Preferences`. - Make sure `Show icon on system tray` is checked - Select the tab `Input Method`. - Click `Add` to add a keyman keyboard. - Click the 3 dots expander then search for "Other" and click it - The Keyman keyboards should be listed here to choose