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How to easy type in Full-width alphanumeric way in Ubuntu?
Full-width characters are those from U+FF00 to U+FFEF



Is it possible by using IBUS or Japanese keyboard layout?


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It is possible to accomplish this by adding either a new xkb layout or layout variant. Here's what I did to add a new full width character keyboard layout variant (for the US keyboard layout):




  1. Make a backup of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us, /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst


  2. Add the layout variant to the end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us



    partial alphanumeric_keys
    xkb_symbols "fullwidth" {

    name[Group1]= "English (US, fullwidth)";

    key <TLDE> { [ UFF40, UFF5E ] };
    key <AE01> { [ UFF11, UFF01 ] };
    key <AE02> { [ UFF12, UFF20 ] };
    key <AE03> { [ UFF13, UFF03 ] };
    key <AE04> { [ UFF14, UFF04 ] };
    key <AE05> { [ UFF15, UFF05 ] };
    key <AE06> { [ UFF16, UFF3E ] };
    key <AE07> { [ UFF17, UFF06 ] };
    key <AE08> { [ UFF18, UFF0A ] };
    key <AE09> { [ UFF19, UFF08 ] };
    key <AE10> { [ UFF10, UFF09 ] };
    key <AE11> { [ UFF0D, UFF3F ] };
    key <AE12> { [ UFF1D, UFF0B ] };

    key <AD01> { [ UFF51, UFF31 ] };
    key <AD02> { [ UFF57, UFF37 ] };
    key <AD03> { [ UFF45, UFF25 ] };
    key <AD04> { [ UFF52, UFF32 ] };
    key <AD05> { [ UFF54, UFF34 ] };
    key <AD06> { [ UFF59, UFF39 ] };
    key <AD07> { [ UFF55, UFF35 ] };
    key <AD08> { [ UFF49, UFF29 ] };
    key <AD09> { [ UFF4F, UFF2F ] };
    key <AD10> { [ UFF50, UFF30 ] };
    key <AD11> { [ UFF3B, UFF5B ] };
    key <AD12> { [ UFF3D, UFF5D ] };

    key <AC01> { [ UFF41, UFF21 ] };
    key <AC02> { [ UFF53, UFF33 ] };
    key <AC03> { [ UFF44, UFF24 ] };
    key <AC04> { [ UFF46, UFF26 ] };
    key <AC05> { [ UFF47, UFF27 ] };
    key <AC06> { [ UFF48, UFF28 ] };
    key <AC07> { [ UFF4A, UFF2A ] };
    key <AC08> { [ UFF4B, UFF2B ] };
    key <AC09> { [ UFF4C, UFF2C ] };
    key <AC10> { [ UFF1B, UFF1A ] };
    key <AC11> { [ UFF07, UFF02 ] };

    key <AB01> { [ UFF5A, UFF3A ] };
    key <AB02> { [ UFF58, UFF38 ] };
    key <AB03> { [ UFF43, UFF23 ] };
    key <AB04> { [ UFF56, UFF36 ] };
    key <AB05> { [ UFF42, UFF22 ] };
    key <AB06> { [ UFF4E, UFF2E ] };
    key <AB07> { [ UFF4D, UFF2D ] };
    key <AB08> { [ UFF0C, UFF1C ] };
    key <AB09> { [ UFF0E, UFF1E ] };
    key <AB10> { [ UFF0F, UFF1F ] };

    key <BKSL> { [ UFF3C, UFF5C ] };

    key <SPCE> { [ U3000, U3000 ] };
    };

  3. Add the entry for the variant layout to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst



    In evdev.xml, search for <description>English (US)</description>, scroll down to the last <variant> block for the us layout, and insert the following after that:



             <variant>
    <configItem>
    <name>fullwidth</name>
    <description>English (US, fullwidth)</description>
    </configItem>
    </variant>


    In evdev.lst, search for us:, scroll down to the last entry with us: and insert the following after that:



      fullwidth       us: English (US, fullwidth)

  4. Remove the previously compiled keymaps:



    # rm /var/lib/xkb/*.xkm

  5. Logout and login




The new layout should show up in the Text Entry settings menu as English (US, fullwidth), which you can add into your input sources.


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