List of Input Methods For UNIX Platforms

This is intended as a non-exhaustive list of input methods for UNIX platforms. An input method is a means of entering characters and glyphs that have a corresponding encoding in a Character set. See the input method page for more information.

Name Languages supported XIM Qt4 GTK+ 2 GTK+ 3 Other
IBus Multiple languages, including CJK ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SCIM ✓ ✓ ✓
uim ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Leim, TTY and TSM (Mac OS X)
GCIN Chinese input method server for Big5 Traditional Chinese character sets, expandible with input methods e.g. from SCIM. ✓ ✓ ✓
xcin Mainly for traditional Chinese; adapted for use for simplified Chinese. ✓
oxim ✓ ✓ ✓
fcitx Mainly for Simplified Chinese ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ fbterm
InputKing Chinese (traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese), Japanese and Korean. Browser based
im-ja Japanese ✓ ✓
kinput2 ✓ kinput2 protocol
Nunome Qtopia
ATOKX ✓ ✓
ami Korean ✓
imhangul ✓ ✓
Nabi ✓
qimhangul ✓
xvnkb Vietnamese ✓
x-unikey ✓


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