Fcitx under Mandriva

Fcitx stands for Free Chinese Input Toy of X, an input method for Linux.

Home page: http://www.fcitx.org/
Useful link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fcitx

Typing Chinese with Fcitx requires several simple steps:

1. Install Chinese fonts: fonts-ttf-chinese

2. Install fcitx

3. Add the following lines into .bashrc in your home directory:

#setup XIM environment, needn't if use SCIM as gtk-immodules
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"

4. Re-login

5. Start fcitx as

>fcitx &

6. Use Ctrl+space to activate the fcitx

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