Fcitx5 Installation and Configuration Guide | Generated by AI
Done. Fcitx5 is installed and running on this machine.
Summary
Installed packages: fcitx5, fcitx5-chinese-addons (includes pinyin engine + cloudpinyin + pinyinhelper), fcitx5-config-qt (GUI config tool), all frontends (GTK3/4, Qt5/6).
Config:
- im-config set to fcitx5
~/.config/fcitx5/profileconfigured withkeyboard-us+pinyin- IBus daemon killed (they conflict — don’t run both)
- Fcitx5 daemon running on X11
How to use:
Ctrl+Spacetoggles between English (keyboard-us) and Chinese Pinyin- Or run
fcitx5-config-qtfor GUI settings - Or toggle programmatically:
fcitx5-remote -s pinyin/fcitx5-remote -s keyboard-us
Note: This is running on the server (192.168.1.36 workstation) via SSH. Fcitx5 needs a running X11 session — it works if you SSH with X forwarding or use it directly on the workstation’s display. On your MacBook Air you’d install it via brew install fcitx5 if needed there too.
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