RIME Input Method Engine (RIME)

Rime input method engine (RIME) is an excellent input method application, which can be run on a variety of platforms, e.g., Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

RIME does not come with a frontend. Therefore, RIME as well as its frontend (e.g., fcitx5 or ibus) can be installed together.

pacman -S librime fcitx5-im

Among the RIME solutions, wanxiang is a good choice. On ArchLinux, it can be easily installed by

yay -S rime-wanxiang-updater

After the installation, run rime-wanxiang-updater to update the data and complete the configuration.

Besides setting the environment variables (referred to hyprland), another configuration file for further customization is necessary, e.g.,

• ~/.local/share/fcitx5/rime/default.custom.yaml

  patch:
    menu/page_size: 9
    ascii_composer:
      switch_key/Caps_Lock: noop
    key_binder/bindings:
      - { when: has_menu, accept: comma, send: Page_Up }
      - { when: has_menu, accept: period, send: Page_Down }
  

• ~/.local/share/fcitx5/rime/wanxiang.custom.yaml

  patch:
    switches:
      - name: ascii_mode                    # 中英输入状态
        states: [ 中文, 英文 ]
        reset: 0
      - name: ascii_punct                   # 中英标点，可以在中文输入状态输入英文符号
        states: [ 中标, 英标 ]
        reset: 0
      - name: full_shape                    #全角、半角字符输出
        states: [ 半角, 全角 ]
        reset: 0
      - name: simplification
        reset: 1
      - name: abbrev
        states: [ 简码关, 简码开 ]
        reset: 1
      - options: [comment_off, tone_hint, toneless_hint]
        states: [ 注释关, 有声调, 无声调 ]
        reset: 1