Input Chinese on Fedora 41 using fcitx5

Fedora use ibus for input by default, but for Chinese user you will find fcitx5 Pinyin is more efficient.

1. Install fcitx5

sudo dnf install fcitx5 fcitx5-chinese-addons

2. Config .xinitrc

cat >> $HOME/.xinitrc <<"EOF"
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
EOF

3. Enable fcitx for Gnome

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/IMModule':<'fcitx'>}"

References

[1] Inputting Japanese text in Linux and some BSDs

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