---
name: "ucimf_start"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ucimf"
version: "2.3.8-14+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ucimf_start"
---

# ucimf\_start(1)

libucimf unicode console input method framework starter

## NAME

ucimf\_start - libucimf unicode console input method framework starter

## SYNOPSIS

**ucimf\_start**

## DESCRIPTION

**ucimf\_start** is an assistant program to help setting up ucimf and  start consle terminal program.

## NOTICE

**ucimf\_start** needs to be set setuid to root (and setgid to utmp) to  be functional, otherwise users cannot use keyboard shortcut in fbterm  because Debian does not install fbterm with setuid by default.

setuid to root could probably **do harm to your security**, so set it at your  own risk. If you run FbTerm, use *fbterm -i fbterm\_ucimf* to start it  instead.

**ucimf** needs to run under an UTF-8 consle environment, please  use **locale -a** to see the UTF-8 locales that your system is supported  and use command like **export LC\_ALL=zh\_CN.UTF-8** to set up the locale.

## SEE ALSO

[**ucimf**(1)](/ucimf/1.md), [**ucimf\_keyboard**(1)](/ucimf_keyboard/1.md), [**ucimf.conf**(5)](/ucimf.conf/5.md).\

## AUTHOR

libucimf was written by Chun-Yu Lee (Mat) \<MatLinuxer2@gmail.com\> and Jim Huang \<jserv.tw@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Aron Xu \<happyaron.xu@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).