“fcitx5”

The one-paragraph summary Pick rime-frost if you do plain full-pinyin typing for work and care about word recognition accuracy above all else. Pick rime-ice if you want the longest-maintained, most-documented, lowest-trouble config and don’t want to ever bother with a .gram model. Pick rime-wanxiang if you actively want the upstream .gram language model and the... » read more

RIME has had sync_dir for a long time (since librime-1.5 era, ~2017). The mechanism is well-documented in rime/home/wiki/UserGuide and github.com/Mintimate/oh-my-rime‘s English guide. But the docs assume you’ve been a RIME user for a while — they skip some “first-time installer” gotchas. This article covers the three-device workflow on Linux / Mac / Windows in 2026,... » read more

Three pieces: librime — the engine. Written in C++, library form. On Debian 13 / Ubuntu 26.04 it ships as librime1t64 plus the librime-data metapackage (which drops a stock default.yaml with schema_list: [luna_pinyin, cangjie5] at /usr/share/rime-data/default.yaml). That’s all you need for the engine itself. fcitx5-rime — the binding into the fcitx5 IM framework. Pulls librime... » read more

Most blogs will tell you to apt install fcitx5-wbpy. Don’t. That package doesn’t exist in 2026. The “Wubi Pinyin” IME is bundled with fcitx5-chinese-addons. This guide tells you what’s actually true. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is the first release where GNOME has dropped the X11 session entirely — Wayland is the only game in... » read more