How to input Japanese using fcitx-mozc? 日本語入力への切り替え出来ず...

nevillehay

There's no Japanese input by default. You have to enable it. Click on the task bar icon and go to settings and enable anthy. I think it is in the keyboard settings within ibus

alexintokyo

nevillehay Do you mean this panel? In Firefox and Mate terminal, I can activate Anthy manually in this panel or with the Senkaku/hankaku key. Unfortunately this does not respond in LibreOffice or Konsole or Kate. Could you please let me know if your GhostBSD PC allows you to enter Japanese in these apps?.

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nevillehay

Yes. I'll let you know soon. I'm at work right now

nevillehay

You are correct about LibreOffice. And the others too probably. I don't use KDE. I'll see if I can fix the LibreOffice thing which will fix the other 2 applications as well.
Good catch

nevillehay

Just did something that worked for me. Put these lines in your .xprofile file then log out and log back in

export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
ibus-daemon -drx

alexintokyo

nevillehay I'm not sure what I'm doing differently but I installed ibus and ja-ibus-anthy from Software Station, put the suggested wording in my home directory's .xprofile file, logged out and in again, but the Japanese input method refuses to toggle on even in Firefox or in Mate Terminal...
Which GhostBSD version are you on? I'm on the latest one (GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2).

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nevillehay

Sorry, mistaken advice from AI. This works for me in LibreOffice and Firefox. The previous advice gave me Japanese input in LibreOffice but not Firefox.
Put this in .xprofile

export XIM=ibus
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export XIM_PROGRAM="ibus-daemon"
export XIM_ARGS="--daemonize --xim"

alexintokyo

nevillehay This worked like a charm. As you guessed correctly as it turns out, I hadn't activated Anthy in the ibus settings app... Thanks for walking me through this. I can confirm that Japanese input now works in Firefox, LibreOffice, Kate, MATE terminal, and VIM!

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nevillehay

You should be good to go now

nevillehay

Did yoy activate anthy in ibus settings?

nevillehay

Don't forget to log out and log in

nevillehay

No worries. Thanks for pointing out that Japanese input didn't work in qt applications