[09:25] <nortti> hi, I'm trying to set up chinese (simplified) IME on lubuntu 18.04, and so far with every IME system I have tried (ibus, scim, uim, fcitx) the system installs correctly and picks up whatever pinyin input I install for it, but I can't actually activate the IME in leafpad or in firefox
[09:26] <nortti> I have tried to use im-cofig (with ibus and with fcitx) and set the environment variables by hand (with ibus), but they don't seem to have any effect
[09:46] <titsuki> nortti: hi, I'm using fcitx-mozc (Japanese IME) on lubuntu 18.10 and it works fine to me. AFAIK, fcitx has its own config menu (its GUI) and you can set user-installed IME via this config.
[09:50] <nortti> yeah, that part works fine. just nothing else seems to recognize I have fcitx running
[09:50] <nortti> did you have to do any additional configuration in addition to installing fcitx?
[09:51] <titsuki> nortti: I didn't need to do any other configuration.
[09:51] <titsuki> nortti: but you may need to reboot your computer.
[09:56] <nortti> does not seem to have had any effect
[09:58] <titsuki> nortti: Sorry, I have never used lubuntu 18.04, so I don't have good idea...
[10:01] <nortti> mmh, thanks anyways. will try to see if I can adapt information from say arch
[10:10] <nortti> looks like if I manually do "export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx" in my ~/.profile then it'll work
[10:11] <titsuki> nortti: that's good to hear
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