Thank you, I just discovered your post. I just installed fcitx-pinyin to try out.
On 02/25/2017 09:04 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:51:41PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:42:43PM -0500, H wrote:
I have just done a minimal installation of Centos7 followed by X Windows and the Mate desktop on a workstation. Although the default language is English, I would like to be able to write Chinese text in various applications.
I seem to remember this was very easy to do in Centos 6 and Gnome: possibly only requiring only a simple 'yum groupinstall "Chinese Support"' after which I could use iBus to switch between languages. This does not seem to work in Centos 7.
These days, I use fcitx-anthy on CentOS (which took some work to set up, but ibus-anthy, at least, (for Japanese) worked pretty well. I have instructions, again, for Japanese, but quite possibly applicable at http://srobb.net/jpninpt.html#CentOS6
I'm going to add that a quick look through pkgs.org shows that CentOS-7x does have packages for fcitx-pinyin and a few other Chinese engines, and it might be worth considering making the switch. It seems (general impression on my part) to be replacing ibus in a lot of places, in the same way ibus gradually replaced scim.