UCIMF_START(1)

💖 UCIMF_START(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally all about ucimf_start. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this 🧋✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ucimf_start — the libucimf unicode console input method framework starter 🚀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ucimf_start

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just send it 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so ucimf_start is like, an assistant program whose whole job is helping you set up ucimf and then start a console terminal program. she's the friend who gets everything ready before the party starts 🫶

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🚨 NOTICE 🚨

okay this part is the serious part, no cap, listen up 👑

ucimf_start needs to be set setuid to root (and set setgid to utmp) to actually be functional. if you don't do that, users cannot use keyboard shortcuts in fbterm — and that's because Debian does not install fbterm with setuid by default. it's giving tragic but it's just how it is 😭

ngl, setuid to root could probably do harm to your security, so set it at your own risk. fr fr, we're not playing.

if you're running FbTerm, though, just use this instead, it's the glow-up move ✨:

fbterm -i fbterm_ucimf

also!! ucimf needs to run under a UTF-8 console environment, periodt. so run this to see which UTF-8 locales your system supports:

locale -a

and then set your locale with a command like:

export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8

boom, locale set, main character energy unlocked 💜

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ucimf(1)
• ucimf_keyboard(1)
• ucimf.conf(5)

go read those next, iykyk 📚

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💌 AUTHOR 💌

libucimf was written by Chun-Yu Lee (Mat) <MatLinuxer2@gmail.com> and Jim Huang <jserv.tw@gmail.com>. iconic duo, honestly 🏆

this manual page was written by Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). slay 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🦋 this one was dated January 29, 2010, and it lives under UCIMF_START(1) in the General Commands Manual. go forth and set that setuid (at your own risk, love u) 🌈💖