# Install fcitx-remote-for-osx with Homebrew

Handle input method in command-line. Version 0.4.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:fcitx-remote-for-osx
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fcitx-remote-for-osx
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:fcitx-remote-for-osx
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Source summary:** Handle input method in command-line
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/xcodebuild/fcitx-remote-for-osx>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/xcodebuild/fcitx-remote-for-osx>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- fcitx-remote (alias)
- fcitx-remote-general (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.0
## Project history and usage

fcitx-remote-for-osx is a macOS command-line utility that simulates fcitx-remote behavior for switching or querying input methods.

### Project history

The official GitHub repository was created in 2015 and describes the project as an fcitx-remote simulation for handling OS X input methods from the command line.

### Adoption history

The input package metadata shows Homebrew packaging, which is the natural distribution channel for a macOS-specific command-line input-method helper.

### How it is used

Users install the `fcitx-remote` and `fcitx-remote-general` executables to control macOS input-method state from scripts, shells, or editor integrations.

### Why package nerds care

The package is useful to developers and multilingual macOS users who want Unix-like, scriptable control over input-method state without depending on the Linux fcitx runtime.

### Timeline

- 2015: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2023: Repository metadata shows later maintenance activity.

### Related projects

- fcitx and fcitx-remote provide the Linux input-method behavior that this macOS tool emulates.

### Sources

- Official GitHub repository metadata for xcodebuild/fcitx-remote-for-osx.
- Official README.
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fcitx-remote-for-osx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fcitx-remote-for-osx.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph