Keyboard and Touch Keyboard using Hiragana

General
1

Hi, I want to use both the regular and the touch keyboard with Hiragana on my Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 2. How do I do that?

It all works out of the box on Windoof

thx

2

Does no one have a solution?

3

Yes, it’s a little complicated:

  1. You need to install:

    fcitx5

    fcitx5-mozc

    fcitx5-configtool

    plasma-keyboard

  2. Go to System-Settings → Keyboard → Virtual Keyboard → Chose Fcitx5 Wayland Launcher → Apply

  3. System-Settings → Input Method → Add Input Method → Mozc

  4. Now you should see a kayboard icon on the taskbar → left klick to switch to a different layout if needed.

  5. I don’t have a touch screen but plasma-keyboard, maybe works. See Video below. After install go to System-Settings→ Keyboard → On-Screen Keyboard and try it with Japanese. It should POP Up if you touch a text editor window.

4

Touch and keyboard work fine on their own with Hiragana, but I always have to manually switch between touch and Japanese keyboard layouts in Virtual Keyboard…

It’s a shame that Linux doesn’t allow this, unlike Windows where you can have both at the same time…

5

You can always show the on-screen keyboard with

sudo nano /etc/environment

and add: KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1

restart after