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Latest revision as of 11:01, 6 April 2024
IBus is a bus for various input methods.
Installation
Enabling IBus is described in the manual. Mainly, it can be done as follows:
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{pkgs, lib, ...}:
{
i18n.inputMethod = {
enabled = "ibus";
ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [ /* any engine you want, for example */ anthy ];
};
}
After switching, you still need to logout from your session and login again for ibus to work correctly.
Input methods
To get the list of available engines, you can use the tab completion of nix repl
.
$ nix repl nix-repl> ibus-engines.<Tab>
Custom emojis
Custom emojis can be added to the emoji selection dialog of IBus. This can be used to workaround the fact that GTK does not support compose rules which output more than one unicode codepoint. Here an example Home Manager module:
~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix
{ pkgs, lib, config, ... }:
let
/* define here the list of desired favorite emoji */
fav = {
shrug = ''¯\_(ツ)_/¯'';
"markdown-shrug" = ''¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯'';
flip = ''(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻'';
};
in
{
dconf.settings."desktop/ibus/panel/emoji" = with lib.hm.gvariant; {
favorite-annotations = mkArray type.string (lib.attrNames fav);
favorites = mkArray type.string (lib.attrValues fav);
};
}
Then, typing Ctrl+Shift+e
and then shrug
, Space and Return will insert ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
.