spiegel-keyman/linux/keyman-config

Linux KMP installer

Preparing to run

If you are running from the repo or installing keyman-config manually rather than from a package then you will need to

sudo apt install python3-lxml python3-magic python3-numpy python3-pil python3-requests python3-requests-cache python3 python3-gi gir1.2-webkit-3.0 dconf-cli python3-setuptools

You will also need kmflcomp either from a package or built and installed locally.

run the script ./createkeymandirs.sh to create the directories for these programs to install the packages to

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 keyman-config.
• 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

Building the Debian package

You will need the build dependencies as well as the runtime dependencies above

sudo apt install dh-python python3-all debhelper help2man

Run make deb. This will build the Debian package in the make_deb directory.