On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:23:08PM -0400, H wrote: > On 05/27/2017 10:15 PM, H wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 4/2/2017 11:27 AM, H wrote: > > > > Thank you, I just discovered your post. I just installed fcitx-pinyin to try out. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > Still have not solved my problem above, i.e., after installing fcitx I can switch between US English and a European language but not to Chinese. > > > > I run the Mate Desktop on CentOS 7 and the configuration tool for fcitx that has been installed in the Settings Panel complains that a fcitx-config/fcitx-configtool program is missing. > > > > I have not been able to find that program on the 'net and am hoping someone else - anyone - is using fcitx for input of an Asian language in CentOS7/Mate... > > Yes, me, as mentioned above. Ok, do this, which is also described on my page under some other distributions. Quit X. Go into ~/.config/fcitx. Edit profile, looking for pinyan:False. Change that False to True and startx again. It should then show as available. I think, when I decided to use fcitx on CentOS-7, I already knew about this method so never even looked for configtool. > By the way, LibreOffice seems to have a couple of Chinese fonts installed, I am not sure I need to install additional fonts for the OS? > > Once you get it running, you can see. Possibly not. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6