Trouble getting fcitx5 to work

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Looks empty to me

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That’s the correct file, yes. Don’'t know about the entries - you’ve got to trust @nyepi on that part…

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I just paste it and im going to log in and out

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it didn’t work even with a full restart, maybe Im not sopposed to paste it like that?

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Your /etc/environment seems fine (unless you forgot to save it after editing). Did you configure fcitx to autostart? Fcitx5 - ArchWiki

EDIT: What happens if you start fcitx5 from the console and then hit Ctrl+Space?

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Also , I would comment or delete “fcitx5” above those export lines.

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The /etc/environment file is supposed to be like this

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx

NOT

GTK_IM_MODULE DEFAULT=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE DEFAULT=fcitx
XMODIFIERS DEFAULT=@im=fcitx

Two different syntax

Read the wiki carefully

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So I changed it to =

GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx

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I have all of my fcitx variavles at the end of ~/.xprofile

  1 #
  2 # ~/.xprofile
  3 #
  4 #
  5 
  6 # if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; th    en
  7 #     eval "$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
  8 # fi
  9 
 10 # Environment variables
 11 #
 12 
 13 [[ -f ~/.extend.xprofile ]] && . ~/.extend.xprofile
 14 
 15 export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
 16 export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
 17 export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx

And they are in /etc/environment like this, as you have already amended:

 1 #
  2 # This file is parsed by pam_env module
  3 #
  4 # Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
  5 #
  6 QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
  7 
  8 GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
  9 QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
 10 XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx

Did you install the other packages as noted by @nyepi ?

I didn’t install the fcitx-im group, but I did install those three packages. And I do not have a ~/.pam_enviroment file. I did a full reboot to apply the changes.

Once finished, you should see something like this when you right click the fcitx icon in the panel, and choose Configure:

NOTE: Keyboard - Chinese is not required. I moved it across in error.

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Ok i’ll try this tomorrow because I got to sleep

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so I don’t have a ~/.xprofile so I edited the /etc/environment with nano.

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My Fcitx5

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I already install fcitx5-im

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Im just gonna reboot the system and see does it work

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I deleted the file with Nemo because I wasn’t able to make root work with Dolphin.

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It worked, I can type in Feather pad, LibreOffice, Konsole.

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Typing in Chinese in the terminal

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Great! Glad it’s working. :slight_smile: :+1:

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Running GUIs as root is bad practice - I highly recommend using the console.

Anyway, glad to hear that you were able to get fcitx to work :+1:

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Yeah but I don’t know how to move and copy files in the terminal so…