If you run the ibus-daemon and there is no ibus icon appear in the top panel, then perhaps it means you do not have the ibus installed correctly.
Try to run the ibus-daemon in the terminal, such as gnome-terminal, it will tells you why ibus can not be run.
On Mon, 7/10/17, ㎡ Q <leavfin@outlook.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: ibus-pinyin: Unable to get it to work on Debian Stretch
To: "Zach Williams" <zesw2the@yahoo.com>
Cc: "debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org" <debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org>
Date: Monday, July 10, 2017, 12:25 AM
Have you ever try All+F2, then run the
ibus-daemon?
Maybe it works, and you can choose the pinyin method in
setting page
After I pressed Alt+F2, a window popped up saying "Enter a Command"
I entered ibus-daemon in the empty box and press the Enter key on my keyboard
Nothing happened :(