[FIXED] fcitx5 shows "OpenBangla Keyboard (not available)"

[BandhanPramanik]

This issue happens because fcitx5 and fcitx are two different versions.

Here, we will be dealing with 3 directories/files in particular:

• Where openbangla.so is located (Go to "OpenBangla-Keyboard" directory and enter find -name "openbangla.so", or simply, recursively search for openbangla.so. Go there, then copy the path.)
• Where the addon files are located (Run fcitx5-diagnose | less, wait for a while, then and write "/addon" and press Enter)
• Where there are libraries for the OpenBangla Keyboard (for 64-bit systems, it's usually /usr/lib64/fcitx5)

In my case, the directories were like OpenBangla-Keyboard/build/src/engine/fcitx, /usr/share/fcitx5/addon, /usr/lib64/fcitx5 respectively.

This is the Bash script I've made to make the installation process easier. This script is only guaranteed to work if you have installed fcitx5 using your package manager.

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# -- Part 0: Input Handling --

echo -e "== [[ Welcome to the installation of the OpenBangla Keyboard addon for fcitx5 ]] =="

echo -e "\nWhere is your openbangla.so located? (provide full path to the file)"
read -r ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR

# Convert the file to a directory (in case someone has written it as a file)
if [ -f "${ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR}" ]; then
    ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR="$(dirname "${ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR}")"
fi

# Check whether the file exists inside the directory
if [ ! -f "${ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR}/openbangla.so" ]; then
    echo -e "\nError: openbangla.so not found in the provided directory...\n\nExited the program."
    exit 1
fi

echo -e "\nWhat is the fcitx5 addon config directory? (check through the command \"fcitx5-diagnose | less\" as mentioned in the post; usually /usr/share/fcitx5/addon)"
read -r ADDONSTEMPVAR

# Check whether the directory exists
if [ ! -d "${ADDONSTEMPVAR}" ]; then
    echo -e "Error: Provided addon directory does not exist...\n\nExited the program."
    exit 1
fi

echo -e "\nWhere is the fcitx5 library directory? (usually /usr/lib64/fcitx5 or /usr/lib/fcitx5)"
read -r LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR

# Check whether the directory exists
if [ ! -d "${LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR}" ]; then
    echo -e "\nError: Provided library directory does not exist...\n\nExited the program."
    exit 1
fi

# -- Part 1: Copying openbangla.so to the fcitx5 libraries --

# Asking whether to overwrite openbangla.so in the libraries
if [ -f "${LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR}/openbangla.so" ]; then
    echo -e "\n\nWarning: openbangla.so exists in ${LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR}.\nDo you really want to overwrite openbangla.so in ${LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR}? (y/N)"
    read -r OPTIONONE
    if [[ ! $OPTIONONE =~ ^[Yy] ]]; then
        echo "Operation aborted."
        exit 0
    fi
fi

sudo cp -v "${ORIGINALFILETEMPVAR}/openbangla.so" "${LIBDIRECTORYTEMPVAR}/"

# -- Part 2: Creating openbangla.conf in the addons directory --

# Asking whether to overwrite openbangla.conf in the addons directory
if [ -f "${ADDONSTEMPVAR}/openbangla.conf" ]; then
    echo -e "\nWarning: openbangla.conf exists in ${ADDONSTEMPVAR}.\nDo you really want to overwrite openbangla.conf in ${ADDONSTEMPVAR}? (y/N)"
    read -r OPTIONTWO
    if [[ ! $OPTIONTWO =~ ^[Yy] ]]; then
        echo "Operation aborted."
        exit 0
    fi
fi

echo "The following has been written to ${ADDONSTEMPVAR}/openbangla.conf:"
echo -e "[Addon]\nName=OpenBangla\nLibrary=openbangla\nType=im\nEnabledByDefault=True" | sudo tee "${ADDONSTEMPVAR}/openbangla.conf"

# Done
echo -e "\n\nSuccessfully installed openbangla.so and created the addon config! Please restart your computer for the changes to take effect.\n(You can use \"fcitx5 -r\" to test)"

If you save it as openbanglafcitx5random.sh, then enter:

chmod u+x openbanglafcitx5random.sh
sudo ./openbanglafcitx5random.sh

Please enter the full directories while you're providing input.

Note: This is more of a temporary bash script until the maintainers develop a fix for this.

[codayon]

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