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Cinnamon Desktop Gets Improved Support for Keyboard Layouts and Input Methods
Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today in the monthly newsletter that the next version of Cinnamon will feature improved support for keyboard layouts and input methods, including support for both traditional layouts and IBus input methods in the keyboard settings and the keyboard applet.
This also means that the next version of the Cinnamon desktop environment will be fully compatible with Wayland for both traditional layouts and IBus input methods. The same goes for the on-screen keyboard, which will be natively implemented in Cinnamon, featuring support for input methods and a keyboard layout switch.
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Improved support for keyboard layouts and IM
The next version of Cinnamon will feature improved support for keyboard layouts and input methods.
In the past, the keyboard settings and the keyboard applet only really handled traditional layouts.
Going forward, traditional layouts and IBus input methods will be presented in the keyboard settings alongside each other, as if they were the same.
In this screenshot you can see a list of two layouts. One is a traditional XKB layout: French accents on a US ANSI layout. The other is actually an IBus input method: Japanese, using the Mozc engine.
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Linux Mint Improves Keyboard and Input Switching for Cinnamon
Linux Mint users can expect an easier time switching between keyboard layouts and input methods in the next version of the GTK-based Cinnamon desktop.