thaime

Thai Input Method Engine - "Thaime"

A Latin-to-Thai typing library

Usage

1. (Pre-requisite) Python3 & IBus must be installed on your system

Install IBus, Python IBus binding, and GObject Introspection bindings

Ubuntu:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ibus ibus-gtk3 python3-gi gir1.2-ibus-1.0 libibus-1.0-dev

Fedora:

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install -y ibus ibus-devel ibus-gtk3 gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-devel python3-gobject-base python3-gobject-devel

2. Copy thaime.xml to the IBus components directory

sudo cp engine/thaime.xml /usr/share/ibus/component/

3. Start / restart the IBus daemon

ibus-daemon -drx

4. Verify that Thaime is registered with IBus

ibus list-engine | grep thaime

Should output: thaime - Thaime

5. Make the ibus-engine-thaime script executable

chmod +x engine/ibus-engine-thaime-python

6. Set the input engine to Thaime via your toolbar GUI or:

ibus engine thaime