Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 9 September 2018 13:37:28 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > How did you switch from that to Pinyin before then? > It sounds like you're asking for all input to switch to it rather than > temporarily for a bit of text entry. By using the iBus Panel or the hot key. > > When first booted, the E

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Terry Coles
> If I can work out how to get the English mode back again, then I have a > goer. I got English mode back again by adding the UK input mode in Ubuntu's Settings, but then Pinyin didn't work There didn't seem to be an Input Mode choice in iBus's own Preferences in Ubuntu, although it's there

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I haven't worked out how to switch back to English input mode. How did you switch from that to Pinyin before then? It sounds like you're asking for all input to switch to it rather than temporarily for a bit of text entry. > When first booted, the English (UK) option is available but

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Terry Coles
> I'll put Gnome on this machine and see what happens. Well. That worked, but I haven't worked out how to switch back to English input mode. When first booted, the English (UK) option is available but when selected, it simply switches to full Chinese instead of Pinyin ;-) If I can work out ho

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 9 September 2018 12:15:28 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Or maybe it's a KDE thing. > > That's the impression I got from the bug report you found and some other > Googling. But I thought Fedora's KDE lot might have put more effort > into the IBus issue. I just tried Unity, cos that's w

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > Or maybe it's a KDE thing. That's the impression I got from the bug report you found and some other Googling. But I thought Fedora's KDE lot might have put more effort into the IBus issue. Google also suggested glib and friends, i.e. Gnome rather than KDE, were OK. So yes, try Gnom

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 9 September 2018 11:42:52 BST Natalie Masse Hooper wrote: > I started learning Chinese a couple of years ago and successfully set up > Pinyin characters typing using iBus. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. So it's still working for you on 16.04? Can you remember how you did it? The bug repor

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Natalie Masse Hooper
I started learning Chinese a couple of years ago and successfully set up Pinyin characters typing using iBus. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. On Sat, 8 Sep 2018, 16:49 Terry Coles, wrote: > Hi, > > My wife and son are learning Chinese. My son has successfully setup his > W10 > machine to type Piny

Re: [Dorset] Entering Chinese Characters (Pinyin) in (K)ubuntu

2018-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > The way to do it seems to be by using iBus see: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus It does seem to have replaced other methods. > Failing a solution, does anyone know of a distro which might work; > I could dual boot for that feature then. I'd try that first with a bootable im