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Good day. I want to use Japanese IDE in manjaro but I don’t know how. I tried using ibus but it doesn’t even changes the letters I type. What should I do about this? Thanks in advance

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██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: Aspire A514-53 V1.16 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.14.7-2-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 27 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1473 (pacman) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: bash 5.1.8 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 1366x768 
████████  ████████  ████████   DE: Plasma 5.22.5 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: KWin 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: Breeze Light [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: konsole 
                               CPU: Intel i3-1005G1 (4) @ 3.400GHz 
                               GPU: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G1 
                               Memory: 4310MiB / 7630MiB

inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 5.14.7-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 
  root=UUID=3e711149-8ebe-45af-8e9a-78a1cdacff3f rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=d27dc7f4-ce4f-48b8-ba69-9971d9cc4ca0 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A514-53 v: V1.16 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: IL model: Sneezy_IL v: V1.16 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.16 
  date: 01/18/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 31.7/53.0 Wh (59.8%) 
  volts: 16.6 min: 15.4 model: PANASONIC KT004 AP19B5L type: Li-ion 
  serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 386 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-1005G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ice Lake family: 6 model-id: 7E (126) stepping: 5 microcode: A6 cache: 
  L2: 4 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 9524 
  Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000 
  3: 1000 4: 1016 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics G1 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:8a56 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Chicony HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:4 
  chip-ID: 04f2:b64f class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 309x173mm (12.2x6.8") 
  diag: 354mm (13.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_icl 
  bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:34c8 class-ID: 0401 
  Device-2: C-Media USB PnP Sound Device type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 0d8c:013a 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.7-2-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ice Lake-LP PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: 4000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:34f0 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: ipv6leakintrf0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: proton0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
  IF-ID-3: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: 
  hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 port: 4060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 30 class-ID: 0104 
  Device-1: md126 maj-min: 9:126 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive 
  size: N/A 
  Info: report: N/A blocks: 2136 chunk-size: N/A 
  Components: Online: N/A Spare: 
  0: nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 size: 476.94 GiB state: S 
  Device-2: md127 maj-min: 9:127 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive 
  size: N/A 
  Info: report: N/A blocks: 2944 chunk-size: N/A 
  Components: Online: N/A Spare: 
  0: nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:5 size: 27.25 GiB state: S 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.4 TiB used: 184.49 GiB (12.8%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: HBRPEKNX0202A 
  size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: G002 temp: 36.9 C 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:5 vendor: Intel model: HBRPEKNX0202AO 
  size: 27.25 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: K5110440 temp: 52.9 C 
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 400 GiB size: 392.65 GiB (98.16%) used: 81.04 GiB (20.6%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 308 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 244 Uptime: 27m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.45 GiB 
  used: 4.58 GiB (61.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers: 
  gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: apt: 0 pacman: 1473 lib: 416 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh 
  v: 5.8 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06
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I personally do not like ibus. I use fcitx5 for all of my language typing stuff. You can read more on the Arch Wiki.

You need to install these packages:

  • fcitx5 (main package)
  • fcitx5-mozc (popular Japanese input, though there are others in link above)
  • fcitx5-qt (prevent issues with qt programs)
  • fcitx5-gtk (prevent issues with gtk programs)
  • fcitx5-configtool (GUI config tool, makes your life easier)

You’ll also need to add these environment variables:

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

The wiki recommends putting them in /etc/environment; I put mine in ~/.xinitrc though iirc. There are multiple ways to input environment variables.

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How do I add environment variables? I am new here so I don’t really understand terms used that much. Thanks for understanding

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You go to the file, and put those in it. I usually put it at the end. Though if you put it in /etc/environment, you need to have root access, so I’d do sudo nano /etc/environment to edit it.

I opted to do it in ~/.xinitrc though, which does not require root access. I don’t think I had the file by default, I had to create it.

You need to reboot afterwards, so that it loads it.

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  GNU nano 5.8                    /etc/environment                               
#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#

























                                [ Read 5 lines ]
^G Help      ^O Write Out ^W Where Is  ^K Cut       ^T Execute   ^C Location
^X Exit      ^R Read File ^\ Replace   ^U Paste     ^J Justify   ^/ Go To Line

What should I do next?

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Put the environment variables in there then:

^O Write Out → Ctrl + O
^X Exit → Ctrl + X

Install all of the packages that I mentioned in my initial comment. Reboot. You should see fxcit5-configtool in your system tray, which you can configure.

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after I pressed ctrl + o, it brought me to this

  GNU nano 5.8                    /etc/environment                     Modified  
#
# This file is parsed by pam_env module
#
# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
#
GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx






















File Name to Write: /etc/environment                                             
^G Help             M-D DOS Format      M-A Append          M-B Backup File
^C Cancel           M-M Mac Format      M-P Prepend         ^T Browse

ctrl + x don’t work here. What should I choose?

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Press Enter. It is asking where you want to write it:

Which is correct.

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Thank you. I will reboot my laptop now. I will report here if it worked or not.

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I’m already using the JPN keyboard, but it still doesn’t change the letters that I type

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Make sure you uninstalled all of your ibus stuff too so that they don’t conflict with fcitx5

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