Have you ever try All+F2, then run the ibus-daemon? Maybe it works, and you can choose the pinyin method in setting page
On Jul 9, 2017 10:42 PM, Zach Williams <[email protected]> wrote: Hi My OS is Debian Stretch (64bit) with Gnome DE. I wish to use ibus-pinyin to type Chinese characters and the packages named below were installed: ibus-pinyin libpyzy-1.0-0v5 pinyin-database An icon called Input Method appeared on the list of installed software. I clicked on it and a window titled Input Method Configuration (im-config, ver. 0.30-1) popped up with the contents as follows: Current configuration for the input method: * Active configuration: ibus (normally missing) * Normal automatic choice: ibus (normally ibus or fcitx or uim) * Override rule: zh_CN,ibus:zh_TW,ibus:zh_HK,ibus:zh_SG,ibus * Current override choice: (en_US) * Current automatic choice: ibus * Number of valid choices: 2 (normally 1) The override rule is defined in /etc/default/im-config. The configuration set by im-config is activated by re-starting X. Explicit selection is not required to enable the automatic configuration if the active one is default/auto/cjkv/missing. Available input methods: ibus xim Unless you really need them all, please make sure to install only one input method tool. There were two buttons: Cancel and OK. I clicked OK. Another window popped up with the below contents: Do you explicitly select the user configuration? * Select NO, if you do not wish to update it. (recommended) * Select YES, if you wish to update it. There were two buttons: No and Yes. I clicked Yes. A third window popped up: "Select user configuration. The user configuration supersedes the system one." There were 7 radio buttons to choose from. I clicked the radio button called ibus. Next, I clicked OK. A fourth window popped up: Setting the user configuration /home/belleville/.xinputrc to ibus. Manual configuration selects: ibus Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) * Required for all: ibus * Language specific input conversion support: * Japanese: ibus-mozc (best) or ibus-anthy or ibus-skk * Korean: ibus-hangul * Simplified Chinese: ibus-pinyin or ibus-sunpinyin or ibus-googlepinyin * Traditional Chinese: ibus-chewing * Thai: ibus-table-thai * Vietnamese: ibus-unikey or ibus-table-viqr * X Keyboard emulation: ibus-xkbc * Generic keyboard translation table: ibus-m17n or ibus-table* packages * Application platform support: * GNOME/GTK+: ibus-gtk and ibus-gtk3 (both) * KDE/Qt: ibus-qt4 * Clutter: ibus-clutter * EMACS: ibus-el The user configuration is modified by im-config. Restart the X session to activate the new user configuration. If a daemon program for the previous configuration is re-started by the X session manager, you may need to kill it manually with kill(1). See im-config(8) and /usr/share/doc/im-config/README.Debian.gz for more. For the last time, I clicked the OK button. No more windows popped up. I rebooted my machine. After I re-logged in to Debian Stretch, there is no keyboard icon on the top right corner of the screen (in Debian Wheezy there is one.) I tried Ctrl+Space or Windows+Space to no avail. Thanks for your help. Zach
