Plover-uinput

Background

Plover is not officially supported on Wayland. There are several workarounds to deal with this. The plover-uinput plugin should (in theory) work across all systems running Wayland. It has been confirmed to work on the following setups:

• Debian 12 GNOME 43
• Fedora 40 GNOME 46

Note that the plugin does not support using a machine type of keyboard.

Installation and setup

Plugin installation

1. Open the plugins manager.
2. Find plover-uinput in the list.
3. Press Install/Update
4. Proceed with the installation.
5. Press Restart after it is finished.

For more detailed steps for installation, see the plugins page

Post-installation setup

Add your user to the input group with the following command:

sudo usermod -aG input $USER

Create a file at /etc/udev/rules.d/90-plover-uinput.rules with the following content:

KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="input", MODE="0660", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

For full Unicode support (emoji, accented letters, etc), install the ibus or fcitx5 package.

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Distributions running GNOME already have the ibus package installed.

After setup has been complete, restart your computer to ensure the changes take effect.

Troubleshooting

Verify ibus is working

1. On a regular keyboard, press Ctrl+Shift+U.
2. You should see an underlined u appear.
3. Type 1f990 and press enter.
4. You should see 🦐 appear.