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I have looked at the answers to the question How do I change keyboards from the command line?, however I have found that even though they indicate how to switch input-sources through Terminal, they do not show how to switch between the modes of the input-sources. For instance I have "Japanese (Anthy)" installed which has several different mode settings section: Input mode, Typing mode, Segment mode, and Dictionary mode. In each of these there are different modes you can set for these settings. Like the Input mode one provides input modes such as Hiragana and Katakana, the Typing mode one allows you to change between Romaji, Kana, and Thumb shift, and the others have other various options you can change between to change the input-source mode.

These are very easy to change through the GUI as there is just a pull-down menu in the AppIndicator bar however as I will be needing to use TTYs for a while and not have access to the normal GUI, I need to know how to switch between these different modes in Terminal. So how can this be done?

At very least I need to know how to switch between the Input mode modes.

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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I am nearly sure, you will have no success doing such things this way if you use the classic console tty instead of a (gui based) terminal program.

This is in cause of the way input data flows. When you use a progam like xterm it will get its input stream from the X window system. So there is a lot of feature reach software between the key you are pressing on your keyboard and the input stream designated for the X application. Such software does the input modes of your desire - it is not a feature of i.e. xterm.

If you are using a console tty your are near to bare metal. You are working with the binaries of agetty, login and bash and they all get there input nearly straight from the kernel. There are some keyboard mappings between the pressed key and the input stream of bash but there is no feature reach programcode on that way which doing usefull things like you want.

cmks
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