Is there a way to set hiragana as default?

[GAumala]

I'm using Mozc 2.17.2240.102 in Arch Linux with the GNOME desktop environment. Everytime I switch to Mozc it starts in input mode "Direct Input" which doesn't write any hiragana. I have to manually set input mode to hiragana to start writing every time. Is it possible to change the default input mode?

[yukawa]

Is it possible to change the default input mode?

Technically, yes, it's possible. You can do that by modifying the source code and rebuild the binaries by yourself. All you need to do is to replace const bool kActivatedOnLaunch = false; with const bool kActivatedOnLaunch = true; in src/unix/ibus/property_handler.cc then rebuild the ibus-mozc binary.

// Some users expect that Mozc is turned off by default on IBus 1.5.0 and later.
// https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/detail?id=201
// On IBus 1.4.x, IBus expects that an IME should always be turned on and
// IME on/off keys are handled by IBus itself rather than each IME.
#if IBUS_CHECK_VERSION(1, 5, 0)
const bool kActivatedOnLaunch = false;
#else
const bool kActivatedOnLaunch = true;
#endif  // IBus>=1.5.0

More background can be found in #201.

[GAumala]

That worked for me! Thank you very much for your hard work.

[tvdstaaij]

I just created a customizepkg customization to install mozc-ut (which provides the ibus version by default) with this source modification. See this gist. Might be useful to other Arch Linux users who install mozc from the AUR.

[zignd]

Hi @hiroyuki-komatsu! Looking from commit history you seem to be the most active developer on the project. Could you add an UI control or a parameter that could be set somewhere to allow users to set this option?

[hiroyuki-komatsu]

Hi Igor,

The latest version has the parameter to use Hiragana as the default mode.

I added the document for the configurations.
https://github.com/google/mozc/blob/master/docs/configurations.md

[giner]

Ubuntu 22.04 is still using an older version of mozc. One of temporary workaround is rebuilding mozc https://gist.github.com/giner/77f5b0f7c14603ce5e78b6fcebf48162.

[foxy123]

Ubuntu 22.04 is still using an older version of mozc. One of temporary workaround is rebuilding mozc https://gist.github.com/giner/77f5b0f7c14603ce5e78b6fcebf48162.

Does it still work? I've tried it on Ubuntu 22.10 and I cannot see any difference.

[hiroyuki-komatsu]

That feature is supported by 2.26.4317 or later.
Please make sure the version on Ubuntu 22.10.

https://github.com/google/mozc/blob/master/docs/configurations.md#activate-mozc-on-launch

[foxy123]

That feature is supported by 2.26.4317 or later. Please make sure the version on Ubuntu 22.10.

https://github.com/google/mozc/blob/master/docs/configurations.md#activate-mozc-on-launch

Oh, thanks so much. Now I have figured out how to make it work!