On 07/17/2017 05:54 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > 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, great, thank you very much! Changing the pinyin setting to true from false allowed me to use pinyin to type Chinese into a terminal window. One correction, though, the setting is not in ~/.config/fcitx but in ~/.config/profile. I only had time for a very quick test of typing pinyin into a blank LibreOffice document since I am leaving on a trip. This did not work, however. How do I get this working? In the font selection listbox there are a couple of - ugly-looking - simplified Chinese fonts but I could not get it to work. Do you have any suggestions here?