Text input in Korean is not possible in Kate or Libreoffice or in all other programs with test input.
By default, I use the German language and this works fine, but unfortunately the text input in Korean does not work at all. Unfortunately, all my attempts to solve this problem have been so far unsuccessful.
I installed all necessary language packs and updated them immediately and also installed in the system settings the keyboard layouts for the required languages. Also ibus and e.g. ibus-hangul had been installed but no success at all. Than I did try out fcitx with its packages but no change here too. Also Youtube videos and forum searches and other web searches did not lead to the desired result either.
I use Garuda KDE Lite but and to be sure I also tried Garuda XFCE + Cinnamon and Garuda dr460nized. I'm actually super happy with Garuda but unfortunately this language problem is currently burdening me. Before I used Manjaro (XFCE and later KDE) for many years with the same hardware and here I was able to get the Korean language input working.
My hardware and System:
Dell Precision M6700 32G
Garuda KDE Lite, 5.9.12.zen1-1
Language packages: global, de-DE, en-US, ko-KR
System language installed: German de_DE.UTF-8 (in use); English en_US.UTF-8; Korean ko_KR.UTF-8
Keyboard layouts: de; es; kr
Also tried the advanced keyboard settings: Korean hangul / hanja with all its options but no success. Even here, when advanced setting with hangu/hanja are activated than the German keyboard doesn’t work anymore.
the result is:
Fehler: Ziel nicht gefunden: fcitx-input-support
Fehler: Ziel nicht gefunden: asian-fonts
Warnung: noto-fonts-cjk-20201206-1 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere
error messages that the location was not found
the result is:
Fehler: Ziel nicht gefunden: fcitx-input-support
Fehler: Ziel nicht gefunden: asian-fonts
Warnung: noto-fonts-cjk-20201206-1 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere
error messages that the location was not found
Warnung: noto-fonts-cjk-20201206-1 ist aktuell -- Reinstalliere (reinstall)
did uninstall and reinstall the above fonts, no sucess here too
reboot, refreshed mirrors, system update all done - no success
did check with the Garuda Assistant the system settings and there was fcitx ibus and Asian fonts not activated. When trying to activate them and put in my root password nothing afterwards happend, means no activation is shown and set there. Also after posting theerror messages above I did install fcitx-support fcitx-hangul asian-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk manually but also no success with that too.
I did also install different Garuda systems in virtualboxes, to see and to check if I maybe did mess up something in the settings with my Garuda host system. But also with the original Garuda system installed in virtualbox I can not type in Korean too.
I did but same result here too, no Korean input possible.
What I also noticed is that by selecting the Korean keyboard in the system settings the keyboard preview do not show me a Korean keyboard. I mean with the Korean letters, only the English letter version of a Korean keyboard is shown in the preview. Normally you can see in with preview the keyboard layout with the typical language letters.
short for Korean is kr. the Korean language name is hangul.
when I ran the commands above like localectl list-x11-keymap-variants I've got very long lists and de is inside but no kr or hangul only a kr104 is listed there but I'm not sure what it is.
I just tried out a last check with garuda barebones in a virtualbox and there I noticed something strange maybe a bug. In the live session I could change or better said activate in the garuda assistant fctix and the asian fonts. but when i did install garuda in the virtualbox and restartet the installed system and than later do start the garuda aissistant again to activate both options (fcitx and asian fonts) nothing happened and the check boxes stay unchecked so far.
'We do not provide support for barbones and do not recommend their use in a VM'
I know that and it was just a last try. As I wrote before I have garuda lite with fresh up mirrors and all updates running on my hardware directly but to figure out if I maybe missed something in the settings or did something wrong in the settings I installed garuda (xfce, cinnamon, kde, barbones ...) in a VB just to check if I can get Korean language input there running.
but this 'bug' that I can not change or better said activate in the garuda assistant fcitx and asian fonts is maybe something you should look into it.
and since this can potentially create some strange problems, i just want to make it clear that i am not in North Korea (kp) or have anything to do with that country. But i live in South Korea (kr)
