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use_ime

Controls whether the Input Method Editor (IME) will be used to process keyboard input. The IME is useful for inputting kanji or other text that is not natively supported by the attached keyboard hardware.

IME support is a platform dependent feature

Platform Supported since Notes
Windows Forever Always enabled, cannot be disabled
macOS 20200113-214446-bb6251f defaults to enabled starting in 20220319-142410-0fcdea07. Earlier versions had problems with key repeat when enabled
X11 20211204-082213-a66c61ee9 XIM based. Your system needs to have a running input method engine (such as ibus or fcitx) that support the XIM protocol in order for wezterm to use it.
Wayland 20220807-113146-c2fee766 Your compositor must support zwp_text_input_v3

You can control whether the IME is enabled in your configuration file:

config.use_ime = false

Changing use_ime usually requires re-launching WezTerm to take full effect.

Since: Version 20200620-160318-e00b076c

The functionality described in this section requires version 20200620-160318-e00b076c of wezterm, or a more recent version.

The default for use_ime is false. The default in earlier releases was true.

Since: Version 20220101-133340-7edc5b5a

The functionality described in this section requires version 20220101-133340-7edc5b5a of wezterm, or a more recent version.

The default for X11 systems is now true. Please ensure that the XMODIFIERS environment variable or the new xim_im_name configuration option is set appropriately before wezterm is launched! For example, Gnome users will probably want to set XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus.

Since: Version 20220319-142410-0fcdea07

The functionality described in this section requires version 20220319-142410-0fcdea07 of wezterm, or a more recent version.

The default for all systems is now true