Saturday, June 14, 2014

Install fcitx to type sinhala unicode real time in ubuntu

Posted by sudheera On 12:46 AM

Since Rsinglish developers asked to use fcitx instead of iBus here are some steps to install and config fcitx in linux environment.  1. To install fcitx, fcitx-config and fcitx-m17n using apt-get simply enter following line in terminal  sudo apt-get install fcitx fcitx-config-gtk2 fcitx-m17n 2. Set the input method for gtk/qt modules and xim programs by setting the environment variables. Open the /etc/environment file in your...

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Install RSinglish-a real time sinhala unicode converter on linux

Posted by sudheera On 1:33 AM

Update  : Developers of Rsinglish asked to use fcitx instead of m17n alone so this post is outdated, please refer to the next blog post to install fcitx and type Unicode realtime.   Real time Singlish is a real time unicode converter script for Sinhala. Here are few steps to follow in order to install it on Linux mint 16(Petra) and Ubuntu. 1. Install IBus and Ibus-m17n using following commands sudo apt-get install ibus sudo apt-get...