If you have a Gnome based window manager, start ami_applet.
If you are running KDE start wmami. In a Debian system running KDE you will find ami under “Utilities.. Debian..Ami.
You might try to start ami, by typing the following commands in a bash-shell.
$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=Ami $ export LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.eucKR $ ami & |
Now there should be a new item in the KDE or Gnome sidebar. Klick on the new item and now the following dialog should appear:

If you see just garbled characters then you should check again the prerequisites.
The tabs on the top show (from left to right) "keyboard", "setup", "key binding", "appearance". Then follows a list of available keyboards. From top to the bottom they read
"두벌식" -> “2-set keyboard layout“
"세벌식" -> "3-set keyboard layout"
"세벌식_S390" -> "3-set keyboard layout S390"
It seems that these layout correspond to korean typewriters. Please feel free to use the one which prefer.
The buttons at the bottom say "About Ami", "Save", "Quit". Pressing "About Ami" will show you the following dialog.


The options from top to bottom are:
입력 방식 ??? choose (from top to bottom)
단어단위: 이동가능 src/cp.c: 186
단어단위: 이동불가
글자단위
Hanja: ??? choose (from left to right) ??? from ( src/conf.c:73)
漢字 ???
字(한자) ???
한자(漢字) ???
Escape 한글 전환 on /off src/cp.c:225
단일 한영 상태 ??? on/off
초/중성 뒤바뀜 허용 ??? on/off

From top to bottoom you define:
한영전환 (from src/cp.c:451) ???
한자변환 (from src/cp.c:468) ???
특수문자입력 (from src/cp.c:485). Choose the key which pops up a table with foreign keys like korean, “geometric forms”???. international measurement units, special characters (twice), Japanese (twice) and cyrillic (russian).
글 비움 (from src/cp.c:502). ???

From top to bottoom you define:
상태창 만들기 (from src/conf.c:30) ??? on/off
한글상태 라벨 (from src/conf.c:31) ??? Hangul label (define key)
영문상태 라벨 (from src/conf.c:32) ??? label (define key)
입력창에서 밑줄 사용 (from src/cp.c:374) on/off
벨소리 크기 (src/conf.c:42 src/cp.382) (-100 to + 100) slider, fine adjustement with left/right keys.
그림 파일 위치 (src/conf.43) applet picture apprearance (several choices offered like Aqua, MacOSX, woody, love)
Starting with Ami version 2.0 (a prelease can be found at http://people.debian.org/~cwryu/debian/ami/) it is easy to customize a keyboard for the various european languages, e.g. german keyboards are of the QWERTZ type, whereas US are QWERTY and french AZERTY.
Have a look at /usr/share/hangul_keyboard (the exact location may vary depending upon where ami is installed in your system). There you find *.kbd files.
Get the one which is closest to you needs, copy it to a new file in the same folder, edit it with a editor capable of displaying hangul characters (e.g. gedit) and change the few keystrokes which you would like to change.
Then restart ami 2.0 and you should see a new item with your new keyboard.