2017-07-09 23:37 GMT+08:00 Zach Williams <zesw2...@yahoo.com>: > Hi > > My OS is Debian Stretch (64bit) with Gnome DE. > > I wish to use ibus-pinyin to type Chinese characters and the packages named > below were installed: > > ibus-pinyin > libpyzy-1.0-0v5 > pinyin-database > > An icon called Input Method appeared on the list of installed software. I > clicked on it and a window titled Input Method Configuration (im-config, ver. > 0.30-1) popped up with the contents as follows: > > Current configuration for the input method: > * Active configuration: ibus (normally missing) > * Normal automatic choice: ibus (normally ibus or fcitx or uim) > * Override rule: zh_CN,ibus:zh_TW,ibus:zh_HK,ibus:zh_SG,ibus > * Current override choice: (en_US) > * Current automatic choice: ibus > * Number of valid choices: 2 (normally 1) > The override rule is defined in /etc/default/im-config. > The configuration set by im-config is activated by re-starting X. > Explicit selection is not required to enable the automatic configuration if > the active one is default/auto/cjkv/missing. > Available input methods: ibus xim > Unless you really need them all, please make sure to install only one input > method tool. > > There were two buttons: Cancel and OK. I clicked OK. > > Another window popped up with the below contents: > > Do you explicitly select the user configuration? > > * Select NO, if you do not wish to update it. (recommended) > * Select YES, if you wish to update it. > > There were two buttons: No and Yes. I clicked Yes. > > A third window popped up: > > "Select user configuration. The user configuration supersedes the system one." > > There were 7 radio buttons to choose from. I clicked the radio button called > ibus. Next, I clicked OK. > > A fourth window popped up: > > Setting the user configuration /home/belleville/.xinputrc to ibus. > Manual configuration selects: ibus > Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) > * Required for all: ibus > * Language specific input conversion support: > * Japanese: ibus-mozc (best) or ibus-anthy or ibus-skk > * Korean: ibus-hangul > * Simplified Chinese: ibus-pinyin or ibus-sunpinyin or ibus-googlepinyin > * Traditional Chinese: ibus-chewing > * Thai: ibus-table-thai > * Vietnamese: ibus-unikey or ibus-table-viqr > * X Keyboard emulation: ibus-xkbc > * Generic keyboard translation table: ibus-m17n or ibus-table* packages > * Application platform support: > * GNOME/GTK+: ibus-gtk and ibus-gtk3 (both) > * KDE/Qt: ibus-qt4 > * Clutter: ibus-clutter > * EMACS: ibus-el > > The user configuration is modified by im-config. > > Restart the X session to activate the new user configuration. > If a daemon program for the previous configuration is re-started by the X > session manager, you may need to kill it manually with kill(1). > See im-config(8) and /usr/share/doc/im-config/README.Debian.gz for more. > > For the last time, I clicked the OK button. No more windows popped up. > > I rebooted my machine. > > After I re-logged in to Debian Stretch, there is no keyboard icon on the top > right corner of the screen (in Debian Wheezy there is one.) I tried > Ctrl+Space or Windows+Space to no avail. > > Thanks for your help. > > Zach >
Well, I believe a post in Chinese would help you more. And, if you use Telegram, there is a Debian-Chinese group where lots of people discuss topics related to Debian every day (in Chinese :) /Yubin
