I did not find any information on how to input indic languages (Bengali, Hindi, etc, languages spoken and written in the Indian subcontinent) in Archlinux/Archlabslinux using Openbox, hence I thought it might be useful for some how I figured it out after searching the ibus
and localisation support pages and digging through the internet. Anyway, the steps are
- Install
sudo pacman -S ttf-indic-otf
- Install
sudo pacman -S ibus m17n-db ibus-m17n
- Change
/etc/locale.gen
file to uncomment your language (I used bn_IN.UTF-8), and then runlocale-gen
- Run
ibus-setup
and indicate the key bindings, edit the~/.bashrc
or~/.zshrc
files if you must.
Details in the blog post I wrote, https://medium.com/@arinbasu/how-to-set-up-bengali-language-writing-in-archlinux-using-opebox