Cannot type Chinese in some applications

fcitx is old and outdated. I use fcitx5 and my ~/.xprofile contains:

export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx5"
export XMODIFIER="@im=fcitx5"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx5
export DefaultIMModule=fcitx5
fcitx5 &

I have installed the following packages:

pacman -S fcitx5 fcitx5-configtool fcitx5-chinese-addons fcitx5-gtk fcitx5-qt

Works great for me in all applications. One problem I had was the font size of the IME. Here is a simple fix:

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