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The Road to Fcitx 5: 3. You can (NOT) type on wayland (properly).

With a few recent changes on Fcitx 5, Fcitx can now be used to type on Wayland. (Even the window is rendered with EGL! .. ok this is not important) And as of today, I’d say it is the first and … Continue reading

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The Road to Fcitx 5: 2. With multiple focus and multiple display in mind.

I’d like to clarify one thing about this series of articles first. All features described in this series are already implemented, because I do not fell comfortable about writing about vaporware. The purpose of this series is to share some … Continue reading

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The Road to Fcitx 5: 1. libxcb replaces libX11

This is the first post of “Road to Fcitx 5”. I planned to talk about more the changes in Fcitx 5, and comments are welcome. Right now, I’m using Fcitx 5 from day to day. As you can see from … Continue reading

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How to use fcitx on Ubuntu 17.10

Since ubuntu moves to GNOME 3, there’s some difference if you want to use fcitx. It’s not hard to do, but need some manual tweak on user configurations. Here is the instruction about how to use fcitx on a fresh … Continue reading

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Gaps between Wayland and Fcitx (or all Input methods).

Though some people have no problem (or, only few problems) about using fcitx (to be more specifically version 4) with wayland, but the truth is there are still lots of problems left to be addressed. The truth is, wayland is … Continue reading

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