Written by Daniil
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Japanese input method configuration via ansible

Hello there! I broke the OS during the last update and hence lost all my configs. It was time I realized that IaC (aka. Infrastructure as Code) actually makes sense. Apart from other configs I had Japanese input method I had been struggling to configure before. So for the sake of all who like the Japanese language I have decided to share ansible tasks for configuring it automatically.

The requirements for the tasks:

Here are the tasks:

---
- name: Install mozc
  become: true
  dnf:
    name:
      - mozc
      - ibus-mozc
    state: present
- name: Restart ibus to make it recognize mozc
  shell: |
    ibus restart
- name: Add japanese input method
  shell: |
    current=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources)
    echo $current | grep -q mozc-jp || \
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources \
    "${current%]}, ('ibus', 'mozc-jp')]"
    current=$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources mru-sources)
    echo $current | grep -q mozc-jp || \
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources mru-sources \
    "${current%]}, ('ibus', 'mozc-jp')]"

After running the tasks you should have mozc appended to your input methods, e.g.:

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じゃあ、また。