simple blue

A simple theme build using Inkscape and guided by Marguerite Su’s tutorial A simple theme for fcitx5 modified from Simple and Fcitx5 Default.

Screenshot

• InputMethod Change Content

• Input Horizontal

• Input Vertial

Install

Fcitx5

For Arch Linux users: Try out fcitx5 by using the following command:

pacman -S fcitx5-im fcitx5-chinese-addons

Then add the following lines:

• xorg: to ~/.xprofile

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
fcitx5 > /dev/null &

• wayland: to ~/.pam_environment

GTK_IM_MODULE DEFAULT=fcitx5
QT_IM_MODULE DEFAULT=fcitx5
XMODIFIERS DEFAULT=@im=fcitx5

Also, you should add the following lines to ~/.config/fcitx5/profile:

[Groups/0]
# Group Name
Name=Default
# Layout
Default Layout=us
# Default Input Method
DefaultIM=pinyin

[Groups/0/Items/0]
# Name
Name=keyboard-us
# Layout
Layout=

[Groups/0/Items/1]
# Name
Name=pinyin
# Layout
Layout=

[GroupOrder]
0=Default

If you want to change settings in kde system settings, you should install package fcitx5-kcm.

Fcitx5-skin-simple-blue

• For Archlinux users, you may simplely install package fcitx5-simple-blue from aur using your favourite aur helper. And set the theme to simple-blue either in your config file or in systemsettings.

  yaourt -S fcitx5-simple-blue
  

• For other distros: First, clone the repo to ~/.local/shre/fcitx5/themes/

  git clone https://github.com/weearc/fcitx5-skin-simple-blue.git  ~/.local/share/fcitx5/themes/simple-blue
  

  Add the following to your ~/.config/fcitx5/conf/classicui.conf

  # True, if you want a vertical candidate list
  Vertical Candidate List=False
  Theme=simple-blue
  

  If using vertical input panel, you'd better replace the file input_panel.png with input_panel_vertical.png and rename it to input_panel.png

  Every time you change the settings please reload fcitx5

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.