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How can I configure a Chinese input method for KDE? I don't want a Chinese locale, just to write Chinese characters, mainly for learning purposes. (I'm still learning the language, so switching the entire UI to Chinese is not an option...)



Google search results are inconclusive, and from what I understood, not specific to newer versions of KDE.



Details: Kubuntu 11.04, KDE 4.6










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    How can I configure a Chinese input method for KDE? I don't want a Chinese locale, just to write Chinese characters, mainly for learning purposes. (I'm still learning the language, so switching the entire UI to Chinese is not an option...)



    Google search results are inconclusive, and from what I understood, not specific to newer versions of KDE.



    Details: Kubuntu 11.04, KDE 4.6










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      How can I configure a Chinese input method for KDE? I don't want a Chinese locale, just to write Chinese characters, mainly for learning purposes. (I'm still learning the language, so switching the entire UI to Chinese is not an option...)



      Google search results are inconclusive, and from what I understood, not specific to newer versions of KDE.



      Details: Kubuntu 11.04, KDE 4.6










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      How can I configure a Chinese input method for KDE? I don't want a Chinese locale, just to write Chinese characters, mainly for learning purposes. (I'm still learning the language, so switching the entire UI to Chinese is not an option...)



      Google search results are inconclusive, and from what I understood, not specific to newer versions of KDE.



      Details: Kubuntu 11.04, KDE 4.6







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          You may want to take a look here



          I had exactly same problem as yours but thanks to your post and webmarwells reply I have found a solution :)



          What was missing was the trigger to actually start the input of pinyin.



          So after playing with ibus-setup etc, I did:



           sudo apt-get update 
          sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk ibus-qt4 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase


          I have also installed packages for ibus-chewing - as I noticed the name of that on the ibus site



          then



           im-switch -s ibus


          Log out and log in again!






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            Install the package iBus from the kubuntu repository, info here: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/. This is just an input method and doesn't change your system settings.




            • for pinyin input install ibus-pinyin

            • for handwriting recognition install ibus-tegaki

            • the fonts are available from the package language-pack-kde-zh-hans


            Afterwards go to your system preferences and change input method to iBus.



            If you are learning, I would suggest two more programs you might already know:



            Anki (for learning flashcards)



            In Anki you can use a very helpful plugin called pinyin-toolkit (http://ankisrs.net)



            Eclectus (an offline dictionary)



            Eclectus can use tegaki for handwriting input as well. You can install audiopack (made from swac collections) and strokeorder-fonts. You need to install the marcspitz/eclectus PPA for those packages.
            The original Eclectus (as well on launchpad) doesn't work on 11.4.



            Enjoy learning!

            Marcus






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            • Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

              – Little Bobby Tables
              Aug 29 '11 at 14:36



















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            I'm still having this problem (iBus is apparently running, and I can select it as an input, but the pinyin input doesn't actually work) several years later, on Lubuntu 18.04. I believe the current best solution is to follow the instructions at




            • https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu


            to install any supporting packages which might be missing. They are:



            sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
            sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin # or other engine(s) you want
            im-switch -s ibus
            # logout and re-login
            ibus-setup # add input methods you want


            (Support is still quite selective; it works in Firefox, but not Vivaldi, which is not the case when I've run it on other Ubuntu distros.)






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            You may want to take a look here



            I had exactly same problem as yours but thanks to your post and webmarwells reply I have found a solution :)



            What was missing was the trigger to actually start the input of pinyin.



            So after playing with ibus-setup etc, I did:



             sudo apt-get update 
            sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk ibus-qt4 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase


            I have also installed packages for ibus-chewing - as I noticed the name of that on the ibus site



            then



             im-switch -s ibus


            Log out and log in again!






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              You may want to take a look here



              I had exactly same problem as yours but thanks to your post and webmarwells reply I have found a solution :)



              What was missing was the trigger to actually start the input of pinyin.



              So after playing with ibus-setup etc, I did:



               sudo apt-get update 
              sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk ibus-qt4 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase


              I have also installed packages for ibus-chewing - as I noticed the name of that on the ibus site



              then



               im-switch -s ibus


              Log out and log in again!






              share|improve this answer




























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                You may want to take a look here



                I had exactly same problem as yours but thanks to your post and webmarwells reply I have found a solution :)



                What was missing was the trigger to actually start the input of pinyin.



                So after playing with ibus-setup etc, I did:



                 sudo apt-get update 
                sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk ibus-qt4 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase


                I have also installed packages for ibus-chewing - as I noticed the name of that on the ibus site



                then



                 im-switch -s ibus


                Log out and log in again!






                share|improve this answer















                You may want to take a look here



                I had exactly same problem as yours but thanks to your post and webmarwells reply I have found a solution :)



                What was missing was the trigger to actually start the input of pinyin.



                So after playing with ibus-setup etc, I did:



                 sudo apt-get update 
                sudo apt-get install ibus-gtk ibus-qt4 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-open-phrase


                I have also installed packages for ibus-chewing - as I noticed the name of that on the ibus site



                then



                 im-switch -s ibus


                Log out and log in again!







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                    Install the package iBus from the kubuntu repository, info here: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/. This is just an input method and doesn't change your system settings.




                    • for pinyin input install ibus-pinyin

                    • for handwriting recognition install ibus-tegaki

                    • the fonts are available from the package language-pack-kde-zh-hans


                    Afterwards go to your system preferences and change input method to iBus.



                    If you are learning, I would suggest two more programs you might already know:



                    Anki (for learning flashcards)



                    In Anki you can use a very helpful plugin called pinyin-toolkit (http://ankisrs.net)



                    Eclectus (an offline dictionary)



                    Eclectus can use tegaki for handwriting input as well. You can install audiopack (made from swac collections) and strokeorder-fonts. You need to install the marcspitz/eclectus PPA for those packages.
                    The original Eclectus (as well on launchpad) doesn't work on 11.4.



                    Enjoy learning!

                    Marcus






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                    • Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                      – Little Bobby Tables
                      Aug 29 '11 at 14:36
















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                    Install the package iBus from the kubuntu repository, info here: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/. This is just an input method and doesn't change your system settings.




                    • for pinyin input install ibus-pinyin

                    • for handwriting recognition install ibus-tegaki

                    • the fonts are available from the package language-pack-kde-zh-hans


                    Afterwards go to your system preferences and change input method to iBus.



                    If you are learning, I would suggest two more programs you might already know:



                    Anki (for learning flashcards)



                    In Anki you can use a very helpful plugin called pinyin-toolkit (http://ankisrs.net)



                    Eclectus (an offline dictionary)



                    Eclectus can use tegaki for handwriting input as well. You can install audiopack (made from swac collections) and strokeorder-fonts. You need to install the marcspitz/eclectus PPA for those packages.
                    The original Eclectus (as well on launchpad) doesn't work on 11.4.



                    Enjoy learning!

                    Marcus






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                    • Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                      – Little Bobby Tables
                      Aug 29 '11 at 14:36














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                    Install the package iBus from the kubuntu repository, info here: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/. This is just an input method and doesn't change your system settings.




                    • for pinyin input install ibus-pinyin

                    • for handwriting recognition install ibus-tegaki

                    • the fonts are available from the package language-pack-kde-zh-hans


                    Afterwards go to your system preferences and change input method to iBus.



                    If you are learning, I would suggest two more programs you might already know:



                    Anki (for learning flashcards)



                    In Anki you can use a very helpful plugin called pinyin-toolkit (http://ankisrs.net)



                    Eclectus (an offline dictionary)



                    Eclectus can use tegaki for handwriting input as well. You can install audiopack (made from swac collections) and strokeorder-fonts. You need to install the marcspitz/eclectus PPA for those packages.
                    The original Eclectus (as well on launchpad) doesn't work on 11.4.



                    Enjoy learning!

                    Marcus






                    share|improve this answer















                    Install the package iBus from the kubuntu repository, info here: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/. This is just an input method and doesn't change your system settings.




                    • for pinyin input install ibus-pinyin

                    • for handwriting recognition install ibus-tegaki

                    • the fonts are available from the package language-pack-kde-zh-hans


                    Afterwards go to your system preferences and change input method to iBus.



                    If you are learning, I would suggest two more programs you might already know:



                    Anki (for learning flashcards)



                    In Anki you can use a very helpful plugin called pinyin-toolkit (http://ankisrs.net)



                    Eclectus (an offline dictionary)



                    Eclectus can use tegaki for handwriting input as well. You can install audiopack (made from swac collections) and strokeorder-fonts. You need to install the marcspitz/eclectus PPA for those packages.
                    The original Eclectus (as well on launchpad) doesn't work on 11.4.



                    Enjoy learning!

                    Marcus







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                    • Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                      – Little Bobby Tables
                      Aug 29 '11 at 14:36



















                    • Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                      – Little Bobby Tables
                      Aug 29 '11 at 14:36

















                    Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                    – Little Bobby Tables
                    Aug 29 '11 at 14:36





                    Thanks! However, ibus appears to be installed on my system (from the distro repo), and even seems running, but I don't find where to control it. There's no input method icon, and in the system settings there is no entry for input method

                    – Little Bobby Tables
                    Aug 29 '11 at 14:36











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                    I'm still having this problem (iBus is apparently running, and I can select it as an input, but the pinyin input doesn't actually work) several years later, on Lubuntu 18.04. I believe the current best solution is to follow the instructions at




                    • https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu


                    to install any supporting packages which might be missing. They are:



                    sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
                    sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin # or other engine(s) you want
                    im-switch -s ibus
                    # logout and re-login
                    ibus-setup # add input methods you want


                    (Support is still quite selective; it works in Firefox, but not Vivaldi, which is not the case when I've run it on other Ubuntu distros.)






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                    I'm still having this problem (iBus is apparently running, and I can select it as an input, but the pinyin input doesn't actually work) several years later, on Lubuntu 18.04. I believe the current best solution is to follow the instructions at




                    • https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu


                    to install any supporting packages which might be missing. They are:



                    sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
                    sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin # or other engine(s) you want
                    im-switch -s ibus
                    # logout and re-login
                    ibus-setup # add input methods you want


                    (Support is still quite selective; it works in Firefox, but not Vivaldi, which is not the case when I've run it on other Ubuntu distros.)






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                    I'm still having this problem (iBus is apparently running, and I can select it as an input, but the pinyin input doesn't actually work) several years later, on Lubuntu 18.04. I believe the current best solution is to follow the instructions at




                    • https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu


                    to install any supporting packages which might be missing. They are:



                    sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
                    sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin # or other engine(s) you want
                    im-switch -s ibus
                    # logout and re-login
                    ibus-setup # add input methods you want


                    (Support is still quite selective; it works in Firefox, but not Vivaldi, which is not the case when I've run it on other Ubuntu distros.)






                    share|improve this answer















                    I'm still having this problem (iBus is apparently running, and I can select it as an input, but the pinyin input doesn't actually work) several years later, on Lubuntu 18.04. I believe the current best solution is to follow the instructions at




                    • https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki/Ubuntu


                    to install any supporting packages which might be missing. They are:



                    sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4
                    sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin # or other engine(s) you want
                    im-switch -s ibus
                    # logout and re-login
                    ibus-setup # add input methods you want


                    (Support is still quite selective; it works in Firefox, but not Vivaldi, which is not the case when I've run it on other Ubuntu distros.)







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