On 05/27/2017 10:15 PM, H wrote: > On 04/07/2017 10:12 AM, H wrote: >> I installed fcitx-pinyn, and its dependencies, and I now have ZH as a choice but have not been able to type pinyin and get a list of Chinese characters to choose among like I could on CentOS 6. Does anyone have it working? >> >> >> On 4/2/2017 11:27 AM, H wrote: >>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > 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... > > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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.