How To Install imsettings on CentOS 8

imsettings is Delivery framework for general Input Method configuration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings on CentOS 8.

What is `imsettings`

IMSettings is a framework that delivers Input Method settings and applies the changes so they take effect immediately without any need to restart applications or the desktop. This package contains the core DBus services and some utilities.

We can use yum or dnf to install imsettings on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imsettings.

Install imsettings on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install imsettings using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install imsettings

Install imsettings on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install imsettings using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install imsettings

How To Uninstall imsettings on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the imsettings package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove imsettings

imsettings Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-xinput.sh
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none.conf
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/xcompose.conf
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/xim.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/imsettings-start.desktop
/usr/bin/imsettings-info
/usr/bin/imsettings-list
/usr/bin/imsettings-reload
/usr/bin/imsettings-switch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/35acef1d6b893845075782166b32da7ea307dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/f36acfe8b9f02fa29733bae4cfcf448633262e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/d75583c464b57d102f5574f5a8371a912de7d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/7b84696ce981a5f5524e6e9d4d05a9f03ec3c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/6dfeadd2ac2b1e2a06b7c788f6d82e54b72816
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/cceacd4a996dc98e6148a9dc9eed26b113e868
/usr/lib64/imsettings
/usr/libexec/imsettings-check
/usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon
/usr/libexec/imsettings-functions
/usr/libexec/imsettings-target-checker.sh
/usr/libexec/xinputinfo.sh
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/imsettings-daemon.service
/usr/share/doc/imsettings
/usr/share/doc/imsettings/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imsettings/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings/README
/usr/share/licenses/imsettings
/usr/share/licenses/imsettings/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu_ES/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/imsettings.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/imsettings-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/imsettings-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/imsettings-reload.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/imsettings-switch.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/imsettings-unknown.png

References

imsettings website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.