The last remark in my previous message was wrong, sorry! "Using fcitx-pinyin, fcitx-sunpinyin or fcitx-googlepinyin woks, opening an input window but ctrl+alt+p doesn't show preedited text." should be: Using fcitx-pinyin, fcitx-sunpinyin or fcitx-googlepinyin woks, opening an input window and ctrl+alt+p showing preedited text. Regards, Jos v.W.