How to configure keyboard for Chewing input?

[DiaNobb]

Cinnamon 22.1 in Chinese is installed on a PC, the only one OS on the PC. We have managed to add Chewing input method to the system, and the keyboard icon on panel changes to that of Chewing after pressing down the keys Ctrl + Space Bar, but the keyboard does not type the Chinese phonetics. It types English only. How to set the keyboard for typing Chinese phonetics? Please help.
Many thanks.
DiaNobb

 

[Condobloke]

Try this:
Click on menu and type in language support

Follow the prompts from there.... possibly install language support and then to Install the language of your choice

 

[wizardfromoz]

@DiaNobb you already have a thread at

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1pgf29y/how_to_set_keyboard_for_chewing_input

Although it has received no replies yet, you need to decided whether to close that one or not, or this one.

Neither our helpers nor theirs can be expected to be mind-readers.

Thanks

Wizard

 

[dos2unix]

Something you might check.

ps -e | grep ibus
ps -e | grep fcitx

If they aren't running.

ibus-daemon -drx

 

[dos2unix]

@DiaNobb you already have a thread at

Oops, sorry. I didn't see this.

 

[wizardfromoz]

That's cool, Ray.

BTW ibus is not installed by default on Linux.

Candidate: 1.5.29-2

Wiz

 

[dos2unix]

@wizardfromoz is correct, it's not usually installed by default.

But iit's configured correctly, some desktops, (I'm using KDE) will give a warning.

Bus should be called from the desktop session in Wayland. For KDE, you can launch 'systemsettings' utility and go to "Input & Output" -> "Keyboard" -> "Virtual Keyboard" section and select "IBus Wayland" icon and click "Apply" button to configure IBus in Wayland. For other desktop sessions, you can run "ibus start" command. Please refer each document about the "Wayland input method" configuration. Before you configure the "Wayland input method", you should make sure that QT_IM_MODULE and GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables are unset in the desktop session.

 

[Brickwizard]

Q. Did you download from the Chewing repository or from the Mint repository? Sounds like you have only installed the front end