%general-entities; ]> ibus ibus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for the Linux OS. It provides a fully featured and user friendly input method user interface. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &ibus-md5sum; Download size: &ibus-size; Estimated disk space required: &ibus-buildsize; Estimated build time: &ibus-time; Additional Downloads Unicode Character Database: &ucd-download-http; ibus Dependencies Required , , and Recommended &gobject-introspection;, , and Optional (to build IM module for it), (for generating API documentation), and (both to build the Python support library), , (both to build the Wayland support programs), EmojiOne, and libdbusmenu First, install the Unicode Character Database as the &root; user: mkdir -p /usr/share/unicode/ucd && unzip -o ../UCD.zip -d /usr/share/unicode/ucd Fix an issue with deprecated schema entries: sed -e 's@/desktop/ibus@/org/freedesktop/ibus@g' \ -i data/dconf/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml If is not installed, remove the references to it: if ! [ -e /usr/bin/gtkdocize ]; then sed '/docs/d;/GTK_DOC/d' -i Makefile.am configure.ac fi Install ibus by running the following commands: SAVE_DIST_FILES=1 NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh && PYTHON=python3 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-python2 \ --disable-appindicator \ --disable-emoji-dict \ --disable-gtk2 \ --disable-systemd-services && make SAVE_DIST_FILES=1 NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh && PYTHON=python3 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-python2 \ --disable-appindicator \ --disable-gtk2 \ --disable-emoji-dict && make To test the results, issue: make -k check. The test named ibus-compose fails because it uses some locales not installed in LFS. The test named ibus-keypress will fail if running in a Wayland session. Now, as the &root; user: make install --disable-appindicator: This switch disables use of libdbusmenu. Omit if you installed the optional dependency. --disable-emoji-dict: This switch disables the use of emoticon dictionaries. Omit if you installed the optional package. --disable-gtk2: This switch removes the dependency on GTK+-2. --enable-gtk4: This switch enables building the GTK 4 immodule. Use it if you have installed GTK 4. --enable-python-library: This switch enables building the Python support library. Use it if you have installed the optional Python modules. --enable-wayland: This switch enables building the Wayland support programs. It's automatically enabled if both and are installed. NOCONFIGURE=1: Prevent autogen.sh from running the generated configure script. We'll run the script manually instead of relying on autogen.sh to run it, because autogen.sh would set -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=leak in CFLAGS running configure, but those compiler options are not suitable for productive use and they may also cause a build failure. PYTHON=python3: This environment variable makes the configure script look for Python 3. Use it if you want to build the Python 3 support library. SAVE_DIST_FILES=1: This environment variable makes the autogen.sh script save some pre-generated header files instead of overwriting them when it is run. This prevents build failures when generating ibusemojigen.h. If GTK+-3 or GTK+-2 are installed and --disable-gtk{3,2} are not used, the ibus IM module for GTK+-3 or GTK+-2 will be installed. As the &root; user, update a cache file of GTK+-3 or GTK+-2 so the GTK-based applications can find the newly installed IM module and use ibus as an input method: gtk-query-immodules-3.0 --update-cache The command above updates the cache file for GTK+-3. For GTK+-2, use gtk-query-immodules-2.0 instead of gtk-query-immodules-3.0. GTK-4 does not require a cache file for IM modules. Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories ibus, ibus-daemon, and ibus-setup libibus-1.0.so and im-ibus.so (GTK+ Immodule) /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d, /usr/include/ibus-1.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ibus, and /usr/share/ibus Short Descriptions ibus-daemon is the Intelligent Input Bus Daemon ibus-daemon ibus-setup is the GTK+ program used to configure the ibus-daemon ibus-setup libibus-1.0.so contains the ibus API functions libibus-1.0.so