spiegel-keyman/linux/keyman-config/README.md

Linux KMP installer

Preparing to run

Requires python3-requests and python3-requests-cache packages

If not already installed it needs python3, python3-gi

Things to run

keyman-config

./keyman-config

This shows a list of installed kmps. For each one it has buttons to show the welcome page, show more information and uninstall.

Buttons

• Refresh - useful if you install or uninstall on the commandline while running view_installed.
• Download keyboard... - runs DownloadKmpWindow (see below)
• Install keyboard... - opens a file choose dialog to choose a kmp file to install and bring up the InstallKmpWindow for more details and to confirm installing.

Download window

This uses the keyman.com website to install kmps.

The website doesn't know about linux yet (until after 10.0 release) so pretending to be a mac for now.

Search for a language or keyboard in the search box Select a keyboard from the list In 'Downloads for your device' there will be a 'Install keyboard' button for the keyboard for macOS Click it to download the keyboard and bring up the InstallKmpWindow for more details and to confirm installing.

Secondary-click gives you a menu including 'Back' to go back a page.

install_kmp

Command line installer for kmp

install_kmp -k <keyboard id> or install_kmp -f <kmp file>

uninstall_kmp

Command line uninstaller for kmp

.uninstall_kmp <keyboard id>

list_installed_kmp

list_installed_kmp shows name, version, id, description of each installed keyboard

list_installed_kmp.py shows name, version, id of each installed keyboard