bug#38858: ibus-libpinyin no longer selectable in GNOME 3.32.2
This does work after all. The thing to note here is that Gnome integrates ibus, so the manual use of ibus-daemon and ibus-setup is not guaranteed to work when using Gnome. Instead the Region settings should be used. It is important to remove any residual ibus state, including the ibus registry a
bug#38858: ibus-libpinyin no longer selectable in GNOME 3.32.2
Although ibus-libpinyin is installed and IBUS_COMPONENT_PATH is set to include the location of its XML file, libpinyin cannot be selected as an input method in ibus-setup. -- Ricardo