This is intended as a non-exhaustive list of input methods for Unix platforms. An input method is a means of entering characters and glyphs that have a corresponding encoding in a character set. See the input method page for more information.
| Name | Languages supported | XIM | Qt4 | GTK 2 | GTK 3 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBus | Multiple languages, including CJK |  | | | | |
| SCIM | | | | | ||
| Fcitx | | | | | fbterm | |
| uim | | | | | Leim, TTY and TSM (Mac OS X) | |
| GCIN | Chinese input method server for Big5 Traditional Chinese character sets, expandible with input methods e.g. from SCIM. | | | | ||
| xcin | Mainly for traditional Chinese; adapted for use for simplified Chinese. | | ||||
| oxim | | | | |||
| InputKing | Chinese (traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese), Japanese and Korean. | Browser based | ||||
| im-ja | Japanese | | | |||
| kinput2 | | kinput2 protocol | ||||
| Nunome | Qtopia | |||||
| ATOKX | | | ||||
| ami | Korean | | ||||
| imhangul | | | ||||
| Nabi | | |||||
| qimhangul | | |||||
| xvnkb | Vietnamese | | ||||
| x-unikey | |