Installation of Ubuntu 14.04 Chinese Input method

Ubuntu default comes with the Chinese input method is the IBUS frame Ibus-pinyin,ibus-bopomofo and so on. For the habit of Sogou, purple Guanghua, Google Pinyin we may be a bit used not accustomed to. The following is the installation of common IBUs Chinese input method.

1, install Ibus-googlepinyin,ibus-sunpinyin. Search IBUs directly in the Ubuntu Software Center and select Show infrequently used items, i.e. find the appropriate input method as follows.

If in addition to the system comes with the IBUs input method frame, you also installed the FCITX and other input method framework, that needs in the system settings → language Support project set "keyboard input mode system" for IBUs. As follows:

When the IBUs other input method is installed, you need to add the appropriate input method to the text input of the system setup = =, otherwise the taskbar in the upper right corner cannot see the newly installed input method.

You can open the keyboard input method item in the/usr/share/applications directory for further IME settings.

Here you choose the direction of the candidate words.

You need to add the input method that you just installed, and then set it accordingly.

Ibus-googlepinyin Google Input method in the IBUS framework can not be further set, such as the next, preferred to be gray. IBUs Google Input Method candidate default is 5, cannot be changed. This is a pity. Google Input method in the FCITX framework without this problem. This may be the reason why a lot of people don't like IBUs.

The Ibus-pinyin can be further set up as follows:

Here is the default simple traditional, full half-width, the number of candidates and other settings.

Here choose Pinyin Mode, Flip button and so on.

Down set Ibus-sunpinyin:

is when the Ibus-sunpinyin ime is used.

is the Ibus-googlepinyin input method when used, you can see the candidate words only 5, a little inconvenient.

2, if you prefer the Fctix framework is the small penguin input method, but also in the Ubuntu Software Center Search Fctix installation. If you can install fcitx-goolge,fcitx-sunpinyin these commonly used input method.

After installing the favorite input method, you can use FCITX to configure the input method in the/usr/share/application directory. As follows:

Here you can adjust the order of input methods

Here to pay attention to set the switch shortcut keys and page shortcuts, number of candidate words.

Advanced options can be turned on for further configuration.

Of course, you can also choose to set the input method from the Keyboard icon drop-down menu in the upper right corner. As follows:

Drop-down menu can choose to switch simple traditional, switch input method, replace the skin and so on.

1. About uninstalling the IBUs IME framework.

   Install the FCITX IME framework, want to uninstall the IBUs IME Framework needs to note that Ubuntu 14.04 can not completely uninstall IBUs IME Framework, because there are many associated package system is in use. If you are prompted to uninstall the appropriate associated package when uninstalling the IBUs project, it is recommended to take a closer look, otherwise it will cause a series of problems. Hey, the tragedy of me caused two times unable to access the desktop, one time is the user files are changed, once directly ubuntu-desktop corruption, resulting in the need to reload unity.

   Uninstalling IBUs requires keeping the following items:

   Keyboard Input method (with use to Unity-control-center): IME (Im-config) (with use to language-selector-gnome); Intelligent input bus-introspection data (gir1.2-ibus-1.0); Intelligent Input bus-shared Library (libibus-1.0-5) (this absolutely cannot be uninstalled, will uninstall Unity), if the Smart Input Method tool-gtk+2 support (IBUS-GTK) is uninstalled, Then FCITX need to install FCITX-CONFIG-GTK, or the system will error.

   4, Sunpinyin and Googlepinyin comparison:

   Google Pinyin is more than the choice of words, more accurate point, but the two are not purple brilliance, sogou so accurate.

   The Sunpinyin thesaurus is more powerful, but not smart enough.

   Sunpinyin cannot play Yue,jue, such as "Crossing", "absolute" and other UE vowel words.

   5, Recommendation: from the actual use of comparison, we recommend using the Fcitx Input method framework Google input method.

   Of course, you can use the Sogou input method under the FCITX, but the latest version of Sogou Input method will cause the system unresponsive after logout, Ubuntu can not update the problem. You need to wait for it to be resolved before you recommend it. But overall, Sogou is a bit reliable.

Installation of Ubuntu 14.04 Chinese Input method