Rime Chinese Input Set Keyboard Layout

Question

Hello,
I am trying to install rime chinese input. Unfortunately I have a keyboard with a QWERTZ-Layout, which I am very accustomed to. I am using rime in Gnome Shell. Is there any way to keep the German keyboard layout whilst switching to rime? My chinese is not very good, so I hope this forum appropriate for this question.
Any help is welcome.
Edit:
I solved it for the while by tweaking the rime.xml in /usr/share/ibus/component/
This is my customized file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- filename: rime.xml -->
<component>
<name>com.googlecode.rimeime.Rime</name>
<description>Rime Component</description>
<exec>/usr/lib/ibus-rime/ibus-engine-rime --ibus</exec>
<version>1.0</version>
<author>GONG Chen &lt;[email protected]&gt;</author>
<license>GPL</license>
<homepage>http://code.google.com/p/rimeime/</homepage>
<textdomain>ibus-rime</textdomain>
<engines>
<engine>
<name>rime</name>
<language>zh</language>
<license>GPL</license>
<author>GONG Chen &lt;[email protected]&gt;</author>
<icon>/usr/share/ibus-rime/icons/rime.png</icon>
<layout>us</layout>
<longname>Rime</longname>
<description>Rime Input Method Engine</description>
<rank>0</rank>
<symbol>&#x37A2;</symbol>
</engine>
<engine>
<name>rime::de</name>
<language>zh</language>
<license>GPL</license>
<author>GONG Chen &lt;[email protected]&gt;</author>
<icon>/usr/share/ibus-rime/icons/rime.png</icon>
<layout>de</layout>
<longname>Rime-DE</longname>
<description>Rime Input Method Engine with German keyboard layout</description>
<rank>0</rank>
<symbol>&#x37A2;</symbol>
</engine>
</engines>
</component>
Edit2: Unfortunately rime only gets started with the original layout somehow. Thus I reverted to simply tweak the <layout> option in the default engine in the rime.xml file.
Last edited by Alcasa (2015-04-07 07:29:21)

Answer 1

i use fcitx-rime, you can change the layout for rime in the input method configuration panel while not change you system layout.