An easy way to type Indian languages on GNU/Linux systems.

goibus - golang implementation of libibus

Thanks to sarim and haunt98 for developing goibus from which this IBus engine is developed.

See instructions in website: https://varnamproject.github.io/download/linux

• Install dependencies:

sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libcairo2-dev libglib2.0-dev

• Build

make ubuntu-14

The preferences dialog depends on GTK. The above command will build for GTK 3.10 which means it'll work on Ubuntu 14.04 and later versions.

To just try it out:

go run . -standalone

To use it system wide:

make ubuntu-18
sudo ln -s $(realpath varnam-ibus-engine) /usr/local/bin/varnam-ibus-engine
./varnam-ibus-engine -xml govarnam.xml
sudo ln -s $(realpath govarnam.xml) /usr/share/ibus/component/govarnam.xml

# Copy icon
sudo ln -s $(realpath varnam.png) /usr/local/share/varnam/ibus/icons/varnam.png

# Restart ibus
ibus restart

Now, go to ibus settings to add the input method. Currently it's just for Malayalam.

(Note that we use varnam-ibus-engine as executable name)