Simplified Chinese, Pinyin Input Keyboard on Linux?

[rocky sinew]

I moved over to Debian a bit ago on my laptop but I can't figure out how to add a Chinese input for simplified into it. I've got IBus + Rime on there right now but anything I type goes to traditional not simplified.

[next jay]

You can download a noon input method, such as Sogou input method or Baidu input method.

[coarse rune]

do you know which pinyin input method you're using on rime? @rocky sinew

like terra pinyin etc

depending on what you're using, you can probably type F4 to bring up the input method settings

and selecting something that looks like 漢字-->汉字 or 简体-->繁體 will switch to simplified

see here for more details
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rime#Selecting_Input_Method

i haven't touched rime in several months so my memory is a bit rusty

[rocky sinew]

I tried reading the github documentation but at a point it goes into just chinese and I didn't know where to proceed from there.

[rocky sinew]

I see I see

[rocky sinew]

can you elaborate on what noon and baidu input methods are?

[next jay]

You can download the software in Google.com or BaiDu.com,open the web to search

[coarse rune]

oh yeah i just rely on the arch linux documentation

[wheat forge]

it's better that you provide more info

1. distro version
2. desktop environment

[rocky sinew]

Whatever the most recent Kali is, and I'm using Gnome

[coarse rune]

does my suggestion work for u @rocky sinew

[rocky sinew]

I can check on it later, just been busy with stuff that had me on the windows side 😐

[rocky sinew]

Work had me swamped just managed to get time this weekend to check on it

[rocky sinew]

OH THIS WORKS， trying it out right now

[coarse rune]

fyi it's the weekend rn for you but it's a work monday for me 😆

[rocky sinew]

oh lol

早上好

[granite magnet]

sudo apt install ibus ibus-pinyin

[mild hinge]

This failed me. Likely I failed it tbh. But I deleted arch as a result lol.

[coarse rune]

oh no

:(