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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