Maliit/Installing

Revision as of 18:24, 28 May 2011

Installing

Meego

Meego Input Methods comes preinstalled on:

• Meego Handset UX 1.1 and later
• Meego Tablet UX 1.2 and later

Meego Netbook UX

These steps have been tested on Meego 1.1.

• Enable the 'handset' repository. For example:

$ sudo zypper addrepo http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.1/handset/repos/ia32/packages/ handset
$ sudo zypper refresh

• Install these packages:
  • meegotouch-inputmethodbridges
  • meegotouch-inputmethodkeyboard.
• Modify /etc/xdg/autostart/meego-im-uiserver.desktop to look like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/bin/meego-im-uiserver -target slate -bypass-wm-hint
X-Moblin-Priority=High
OnlyShowIn=X-MEEGO-HS;X-MEEGO-NB

This will work with 1024x600 resolution. Replace 'slate' with other code if you have different resolution. See /etc/meegotouch/devices.conf for different codes.

• Add this line to ~/.bashrc (any better place in X configs? /etc/X11/xinitrc-common failed for me) to activate the inputmethod plugin for Qt-based programs:

export QT_IM_MODULE=MInputContext

• Relogin (or reboot) to desktop

Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid Lynx / 10.10 Maveric Meerkat)

The MeeGo Input Methods are not yet in any official Ubuntu repository. However, the packages are available through Launchpad. They are provided to ease development of input method plugins, without the need of using the MeeGo SDK or even scratchbox.

To install the packages, you will need to add two Launchpad PPA's to your system's software sources:

• Under System → Administration → Software Sources, select "Other Software" or
  • Alternatively you can run Synaptics Package Manager and choose the menu Setting --> Package Sources where you can add the following PPA's in the tab "Other Software"
• Add ppa:openismus-team/openismus-meego-im
• Add ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports (needed for Qt 4.7, on Lucid/Meerkat)
• Install meego-keyboard-dev and meegotouch-demos-widgetsgallery (for simple testing) through Synaptics Package Manager or
  • using this command line command(make sure that Synaptics is closed already):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install meego-keyboard-dev meegotouch-demos-widgetsgallery

Debian, and Ubuntu derivatives

You might be able to use the packages above.

Fedora

For Fedora there are packages available from OBS. To install them:

• Download [1] as /etc/yum.repos.d/maliit.repo
• yum install meego-inputmethodkeyboard meego-inputmethodbridges

For testing it out run as user:

• meego-im-uiserver
• GTK_IM_MODULE=meego-im gedit

Arch Linux

Preliminary git packages are available in AUR

To install framework, keyboard, Qt and Gtk+ support:

yaourt -S meegotouch-inputmethodkeyboard meegotouch-inputmethodbridges

Substitute yaourt with your favorite AUR helper.

Other GNU/Linux

Grab the source source code from the git repositories above.

Meego Input Methods uses the qmake build system. So, to do a standard build and install, do:

qmake
make
make install

Dependencies

• All components have a hard dependency on Qt 4.7.
• Framework uses libmeegotouch by default. Pass CONFIG+=nomeegotouch to qmake to disable.
• Keyboard uses meego feedback framework (with reactionmaps) by default. Pass CONFIG+=noreactionmaps to qmake to disable.
• Keyboard currently has a hard dependency on libmeegotouch.

Work is ongoing to reduce the amount of dependencies in the different components.

Using

To quickly test your installation, it is recommended to use the widgetsgallery:

1. Make sure you have a compositing window manager running: Go to System → Appearance, select "Visual Effects" and choose either normal or extra.
2. Start the meego-im-uiserver (responsible for handling input method plugins and communication with the application) using a shell:

 meego-im-uiserver -software -bypass-wm-hint

1. Test virtual keyboard in MeeGo Touch's widgetsgallery (in a seperate shell):

 QT_IM_MODULE=MInputContext widgetsgallery

To integrate it with your system or product, use the distro-recommended way to start above daemon and setting the environment variable for all applications.