Using FCITX to input Chinese

Before you can take use of FCITX to input, you have to set up some environment firstly, however it's quite simple.

Open .bashrc file in your home directory, add following lines:

 #setup XIM environment, needn't if use SCIM as    gtk-immodules
 export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
 export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
 export QT_IM_MODULE=xim

Re-login to make such environment effective.

After you re-login, open your favorite terminal, type:

  fcitx &

To see if fcitx has been correctly running, open an application such as leafpad, press CTRL+Space to invoke fcitx and input some words.

If anything goes well, I guess you want to automatically start FCITX whenever you start X, which also is highly recommended since if you start FCITX after X, which may crash gnome-panel for example sometimes (not seriously but annoying). Open .xinitrc file in your home directory, add line before starting your WM:

 fcitx &

that's it.

If you use any type of XDM (gdm for example), you should set up such environment in ~/.profile instead of above two files.

Enjoy!

Troubleshooting:

You possibly can't invoke FCITX by press CTRL+Space keyboard combination, but FCITX runs in background without problem, please check firstly your locale:

 [ganlu@A ~]$ locale
 LANG=en_US
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8
 LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
 LC_TIME="en_US"
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LC_MONETARY="en_US"
 LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
 LC_PAPER="en_US"
 LC_NAME="en_US"
 LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
 LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
 LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
 LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
 LC_ALL=

Above is what I get from command 'locale', so you can know for sure FCITX does support utf8 (en_US.utf8 at least) locale without problem. If you locale output shows you having set up a utf8 locale correctly, then I suggest you check if your bash does support utf8 locale:

[ganlu@A ~]$ locale -a

to see if your current locale in there, if not, don't worry, make it yourself:

[ganlu@A ~]$ localedef -vci en_US -f utf8 en_US.utf8

then, relogin to see if that works. If terrible things continue, I have to suggest you try any locale with "zh_CN", for example:

 export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gbk

more information about locale, please find it in google.

2. You can trigger FCITX, but the charactors on it is displayed as blank boxes. Modify ~/.fcitx/config, change the line:

显示字体(中)=*

as

显示字体(中)=AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni

I am using uming font here. Restart FCITX:

[ganlu@A ~]$ pkill fcitx
[ganlu@A ~]$ fcitx &

All configuration of FCITX, please find it in ~/.fcitx/config however you'd better understand Chinese, :- )

Note in the USB Scanner Support page

Latest comment: 3 February 20131 comment1 person in discussion

Hi. I tracked back in the history a note in the USB Scanner Support page (merged since some years with Sane), and I notice you added it in 2005. The note says

NOTE: I can scan image if I define the X and Y value, but without that error meassage occors like: "scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O", if anyone know why, please complete the section.

I am having a similar problem explained here in the forum, and I was wondering if you has been able to solve this problem at some point in these more than 7 years :-) (in any case, this note looks a bit odd at the bottom of the Sane page). Cheers.--JanusDC (talk) 16:28, 3 February 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]