Experimental, simple Wayland-native Japanese input method, using protocols implemented by wlroots. Born as a modification of wlhangul.

On Sway, this requires version >= 1.6.

Depends on anthy, wayland and libxkbcommon.

meson build/
ninja -C build/
./build/wlanthy

By default it starts in anthy mode, so you should be able to start typing in japanese right away after giving focus to a supported application.

Supported applications are those that implement the text-input-v3 protocol:

• gtk+3 applications (e.g. Firefox, GNOME apps)
• foot terminal emulator, since 1.6.0

Unfortunately, at the moment qt5 implements text-input-v2 which is not implemented by wlroots.

Romaji input is immediately turned into kana. Press Space to subdivide the sentence into segments called phrases (文節). Use Tab or Left/Right to navigate between phrases: for a given phrase you can press Space or Up/Down to change candidates and use Alt+Tab to resize it. Undo with Backspace. Commit with Enter (or by starting to type the next sentence).

By default romaji input is mapped into Hiragana. Other mappings can be selected with the following keys:

Press F12 to toggle anthy/passthrough mode. Passthrough mode is slow because the key has to travel back-and-forth between wlanthy and the compositor, so it is recommended to instead bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that toggles the wlanthy service.

MIT