Am Dienstag, den 18.07.2017, 09:17 -0400 schrieb Jonathan Billings: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:23:08PM -0400, H wrote: > > After leaving this along for several weeks I made another attempt at > > trying to get fcitx up and running on CentOS 7 and the Mate > > desktop. I discovered that there is a diagnostic tool, > > fcitx-diagnose, that provided some additional information. > > > > One of the missing programs was the fcitx-configtool that lacked the > > GUI part and that so far I have been unable to find on the 'net. It > > seems that the appropriate GUI tool would be fcitx-config-gtk3 and > > is necessary for configuring fcitx. > > > > Does anyone have fcitx-config-gtk3 up and running? > > > > I have to vent and say that I am very, very surprised that this tool > > for entering Asian text on CentOS 7 is so poorly developed, poorly > > documented and poorly packaged. One would have thought that the > > Asian market for RHEL/CentOS 7 would be of sufficient importance for > > all relevant programs to be available in one of the key > > repositories. > > > > I am under the impression that fcitx, considered the replacement of > > iBus used in CentOS 6 - and which worked flawlessly - has not been > > updated since 2013. Further, the developers have not bothered with a > > proper support website, instead most information is absent. > > My only suggestion is to try to set this up under the GNOME3 desktop > provided by CentOS, rather than what is built out of EPEL. It's the > only desktop that has had testing by Red Hat. MATE is provided by > EPEL as a volunteer effort, and isn't considered part of CentOS. > > I encountered the same problem when I was running Cinnamon as my > desktop, I was able to add several Chinese input methods but I > couldn't actually use them. I switched to Gnome 3 and it just worked > out of the box. > Only 10 Users here :-) on that Cluster and everything behind of diffrent firewall. Cinnamon => Keyboard level to dbus, I think. Andy