How to switch to Chinese characters? I set the hotkey to super+space but nothing happened. BTW, I am using i3 as my window manager and not using a desktop manager like gnome/kde. This is a regular ubuntu so ubuntu-desktop is installed and I am using it whenever I want to modify some settings that are not easy to do via a command line.
1 Answer
You need to install a Chinese input method. The "Chinese" keyboard layout you have in your list of input sources is just an alias to English (US).
So:
- Install a package with a Chinese input method.
ibus-pinyin
andibus-sunpinyin
are examples of such packages. - Log out and log in again.
- Add the input method to your list of input sources.
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谢谢你! I added Chinese - SunPinyin to the IBus Preferences and I can now type in 中文!– royJun 6, 2020 at 19:03