ibus-pinyin: Unable to get it to work on Debian Stretch
Hi
My OS is Debian Stretch (64bit) with Gnome DE.
I wish to use ibus-pinyin to type Chinese characters and the packages named below were installed:
ibus-pinyin
libpyzy-1.0-0v5
pinyin-database
An icon called Input Method appeared on the list of installed software. I clicked on it and a window titled Input Method Configuration (im-config, ver. 0.30-1) popped up with the contents as follows:
Current configuration for the input method:
* Active configuration: ibus (normally missing)
* Normal automatic choice: ibus (normally ibus or fcitx or uim)
* Override rule: zh_CN,ibus:zh_TW,ibus:zh_HK,ibus:zh_SG,ibus
* Current override choice: (en_US)
* Current automatic choice: ibus
* Number of valid choices: 2 (normally 1)
The override rule is defined in /etc/default/im-config.
The configuration set by im-config is activated by re-starting X.
Explicit selection is not required to enable the automatic configuration if the active one is default/auto/cjkv/missing.
Available input methods: ibus xim
Unless you really need them all, please make sure to install only one input method tool.
There were two buttons: Cancel and OK. I clicked OK.
Another window popped up with the below contents:
Do you explicitly select the user configuration?
* Select NO, if you do not wish to update it. (recommended)
* Select YES, if you wish to update it.
There were two buttons: No and Yes. I clicked Yes.
A third window popped up:
"Select user configuration. The user configuration supersedes the system one."
There were 7 radio buttons to choose from. I clicked the radio button called ibus. Next, I clicked OK.
A fourth window popped up:
Setting the user configuration /home/belleville/.xinputrc to ibus.
Manual configuration selects: ibus
Intelligent Input Bus (IBus)
* Required for all: ibus
* Language specific input conversion support:
* Japanese: ibus-mozc (best) or ibus-anthy or ibus-skk
* Korean: ibus-hangul
* Simplified Chinese: ibus-pinyin or ibus-sunpinyin or ibus-googlepinyin
* Traditional Chinese: ibus-chewing
* Thai: ibus-table-thai
* Vietnamese: ibus-unikey or ibus-table-viqr
* X Keyboard emulation: ibus-xkbc
* Generic keyboard translation table: ibus-m17n or ibus-table* packages
* Application platform support:
* GNOME/GTK+: ibus-gtk and ibus-gtk3 (both)
* KDE/Qt: ibus-qt4
* Clutter: ibus-clutter
* EMACS: ibus-el
The user configuration is modified by im-config.
Restart the X session to activate the new user configuration.
If a daemon program for the previous configuration is re-started by the X session manager, you may need to kill it manually with kill(1).
See im-config(8) and /usr/share/doc/im-config/README.Debian.gz for more.
For the last time, I clicked the OK button. No more windows popped up.
I rebooted my machine.
After I re-logged in to Debian Stretch, there is no keyboard icon on the top right corner of the screen (in Debian Wheezy there is one.) I tried Ctrl+Space or Windows+Space to no avail.
Thanks for your help.
Zach
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