FCITX(1)

💖 FCITX(1) — the glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because we're about to talk about fcitx, from the General Commands Manual section of the manual pages (section 1, the commands girlies ✨). this is the whole thing, no skips, no skimming, we're doing this properly. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

fcitx — Free Chinese Input Toy of X — a Chinese IME for XIM 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fcitx [OPTION]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents the fcitx command, briefly, like a little intro post. 📝

fcitx is a Chinese IME for XIM, and the whole point, the entire vibe, is that it's intentionally designed not to depend on any Desktop Environment. no cap. it stands on its own. 👑

out of the box it includes Pinyin and Table for input by default, but it can also support other Input Method. so like, it's flexible, it's giving range, it's not a one-trick pony. 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -r — replace existing fcitx. out with the old, in with the new 💀
• -d — run as daemon (default). this is the factory setting, the main character energy it ships with ⭐
• -D — don't run as daemon. for when you wanna be in the foreground instead 🙈
• -s[sleep time] — override delay start time in config file; 0 means immediate start. no waiting around, bestie ⏰
• -u, --ui[ui name] — force to use specified user interface. you pick, it obeys 💅
• --enable[addon A,addon B] — specify a comma separated list for addon that will override the enable option. yes, comma separated, keep the format 👯
• --disable[addon A,addon B] — specify a comma separated list for addon that will explicitly disabled, priority is higher than --enable. > heads up: --disable wins over --enable, every time. don't fight it, that's just the hierarchy 🔥
• -v — display the version information and exit. quick little flex of what version you're running 📋
• -h — display help and exit. when in doubt, ask for help, it's free ✨

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• XMODIFIERS — if $XMODIFIERS is set, fcitx will run with the name that specified in $XMODIFIERS, otherwise it will run with im name fcitx. so it either takes the name you gave it or it goes by its government name 🏷️

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Please see the homepage at https://fcitx-im.org/ 🌐

that's the whole page, bestie, every flag, every variable, nothing left behind 🍓

and for the cute sign-off: this lil doc is dated 2010-12-16, and it's the FCITX(1) page from the General Commands Manual — so if you screenshot anything, screenshot the date too, it's vintage, it's iconic, it's periodt 💜🌸💖