Fcitx5 can't input chinese | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:32 AM

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I've been having trouble setting up Chinese character input support with ibus on my arch installation, I've had this problem for months and nobody has actually done anything to help other than link articles on the wiki which don't help at all, some actual help would be greatly appreciated! (I am losing my sanity over this)

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:35 AM

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in KDE, it is recommended to use fcitx5for input method

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:35 AM

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oh ok

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I'll give that a try

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:36 AM

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fcitx5-chinese-addons (for Chinese)
fcitx5-configtool (GUI config tool)

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:39 AM

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I got those installed

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what should I do next?

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:39 AM

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in kde, it maybe have input method in its system setting

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iirc

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then choose pinyin

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:43 AM

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did that

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:43 AM

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work ?

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:43 AM

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no

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:43 AM

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i am not sure if it should reboot or not

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:44 AM

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I'll try that

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:44 AM

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can send a screenshot

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:44 AM

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but tbh I doubt that'll fix it

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trying lol

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not inputting characters though

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:46 AM

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you should use like ctrl + shift or what you set for

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i use ctrl+shift to change input method

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check global option for the key setting

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:48 AM

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it's not working for some reason

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last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:48 AM

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dont you have chinese font installed ?

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:48 AM

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yes

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:49 AM

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sleek bolt it's not working for some reason

you should push shift first

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in your config

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or maybe push ctrl+space at first

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:50 AM

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still did nothing

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:50 AM

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last tide or maybe push ctrl+space at first

sometimes it needs

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weird

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:51 AM

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now it won't let me switch to pinyin at all

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nvm

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now it is

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but it still isn't working

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:54 AM

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so weird i don't know either. ALSO, change the title name to Fcitx5 can't input chinese if you still need help from others.

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 3:54 AM

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kk

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Fcitx5 can't input chinese

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tysm for the help!

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 3:58 AM

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what i installed

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also fcitx5-gtk

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fcitx5-qt

sleek bolt Sep 21, 2022, 4:01 AM

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I installed fcitx5-qt

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lemme try installing the gtk one

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still not working

last tide Sep 21, 2022, 4:16 AM

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EDITOR=vim sudoedit /etc/environment

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then input GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx

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then logout and login

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