Select the enabled input method. Input methods is a software to input symbols that are not available on standard input devices.
Input methods are specially used to input Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.
Currently the following input methods are available in NixOS:
- ibus: The intelligent input bus, extra input engines can be added using
i18n.inputMethod.ibus.engines. - fcitx5: The next generation of fcitx, addons (including engines, dictionaries, skins) can be added using
i18n.inputMethod.fcitx5.addons. - nabi: A Korean input method based on XIM. Nabi doesn't support Qt 5.
- uim: The universal input method, is a library with a XIM bridge. uim mainly support Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
- hime: An extremely easy-to-use input method framework.
- kime: Koream IME.
Declarations
Type
null or one of "ibus", "fcitx5", "nabi", "uim", "hime", "kime"Default
{
_type = "literalMD";
text = "The value of the deprecated option `enabled`, defaulting to null";
}Example
"fcitx5"