<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-ibus-typing-booster"> <title>ibus-engines.typing-booster</title> <para> This package is an ibus-based completion method to speed up typing. </para> <section xml:id="sec-ibus-typing-booster-activate"> <title>Activating the engine</title> <para> IBus needs to be configured accordingly to activate <literal>typing-booster</literal>. The configuration depends on the desktop manager in use. For detailed instructions, please refer to the <link xlink:href="https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/documentation.html">upstream docs</link>. </para> <para> On NixOS you need to explicitly enable <literal>ibus</literal> with given engines before customizing your desktop to use <literal>typing-booster</literal>. This can be achieved using the <literal>ibus</literal> module: <programlisting>{ pkgs, ... }: { i18n.inputMethod = { enabled = "ibus"; ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [ typing-booster ]; }; }</programlisting> </para> </section> <section xml:id="sec-ibus-typing-booster-customize-hunspell"> <title>Using custom hunspell dictionaries</title> <para> The IBus engine is based on <literal>hunspell</literal> to support completion in many languages. By default the dictionaries <literal>de-de</literal>, <literal>en-us</literal>, <literal>fr-moderne</literal> <literal>es-es</literal>, <literal>it-it</literal>, <literal>sv-se</literal> and <literal>sv-fi</literal> are in use. To add another dictionary, the package can be overridden like this: <programlisting>ibus-engines.typing-booster.override { langs = [ "de-at" "en-gb" ]; }</programlisting> </para> <para> <emphasis>Note: each language passed to <literal>langs</literal> must be an attribute name in <literal>pkgs.hunspellDicts</literal>.</emphasis> </para> </section> <section xml:id="sec-ibus-typing-booster-emoji-picker"> <title>Built-in emoji picker</title> <para> The <literal>ibus-engines.typing-booster</literal> package contains a program named <literal>emoji-picker</literal>. To display all emojis correctly, a special font such as <literal>noto-fonts-emoji</literal> is needed: </para> <para> On NixOS it can be installed using the following expression: <programlisting>{ pkgs, ... }: { fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [ noto-fonts-emoji ]; }</programlisting> </para> </section> </section>