Fcitx5

• fcitx5-chewing is a popular Zhuyin input engine for Traditional Chinese based on libchewing.
• fcitx5-chinese-addons contains addons related to Chinese, such pinyin, shuangpin, wubi.
• , using the Rime engine.
• McBopomofo for fcitx5.

• fcitx5-anthy, a popular Japanese input engine. However, it is not actively developed anymore.
• , a Japanese Kana Kanji input engine, based on .
• fcitx5-mozc, based on Mozc, the Open Source Edition of Google Japanese Input.
• , a Japanese Kana Kanji input engine, based on .

• , for typing Korean hangul, based on libhangul.
• , for typing Vietnamese characters.
• or , for typing other miscellaneous languages — use the latter for typing IPA (X-SAMPA).

To get a better experience, you should install the following modules as per your needs. Without them, the input method may still work on most applications but you might experience input method hang up, preview window screen location error, or no preview error.

• For Qt programs, install .
• For GTK programs, install .
• For Qt4 programs, install fcitx5-qt4-git^AUR.
• For Qt5 programs, install .
• For Qt6 programs, install .
• For date and time support, install .

Edit and add the following lines:

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

If you want Fcitx5 to autostart when you start your desktop, see Fcitx#Desktop Environment Autostart.

The configuration file of fcitx5 is located at . Although you can use a text editor to edit the configuration file, you might find a GUI configuration tool much more convenient, so install the package.

By default Fcitx5 overrides X keyboard settings. (The ones you can set with setxkbmap command or graphical tools provided by desktop environments.) If you don't want that, run and uncheck Addons → XCB → Allow Overriding System XKB Settings.

The number of default themes is limited, you can find more themes on GitHub.

• ：Fcitx5 theme to match the KDE Breeze style.
• ：Nord Color Themes.
• : This theme gives a feeling like Microsoft PinYin. Its official repository is located at GitHub: Fcitx5-Material-Color. Its README.md file shows some beautiful configurations of one-line mode.
• : Solarized color theme for Fcitx5.

If you have problems using fcitx5, eg. if fails to work in all applications, then the first thing you should try is to diagnose using fcitx5-diagnose. The output of fcitx5-diagnose should contain clues for the most common problems.

See WPS Office#Fcitx5 cannot input Chinese.

The root cause is the JBR come from IDE is not sure fully. To solve this problem, need:

1. Download this jbr and extract it: https://github.com/RikudouPatrickstar/JetBrainsRuntime-for-Linux-x64/releases 2. Change IDE's JBR according https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544879-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under

1. Confirm you have a font with emoji support installed. (Such as noto-fonts-emoji)

2. Set the system font as for Simplified Chinese, for example.

3. Use this command to restart Fcitx5:

# kill `ps -A | grep fcitx5 | awk '{print $1}'` && fcitx5 &

• If you want to view the Unicode encoding of the selected text in a text editor, then directly select the text, and then use the shortcut keys to view the encoding of the selected text.

• If you want to view the Unicode encoding of some text in a non-editable area (such as this wiki), you need to first copy the text to the clipboard, then click on any editable area (such as the search box), and then use the shortcut keys to view the encoding of the text in the clipboard.

In general, for some simple symbols, such as , , á, , etc., you can enter them through Configuring compose key, but for more special symbols, such as , , , etc., you Either customize , or use Fcitx5's Unicode function to achieve.

Take as an example:

Position the cursor in any input box, and then press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + U, and then enter , you will see a variety of , other special characters are similar here.

For fcitx5-chinese-addons, fullwidth punctuation is used by default, one may use to switch between halfwidth and fullwidth punctuation.