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I have recently upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. In the settings, my default input method is German.

I added the "Chinese Intelligent Pinyin" input method and it mostly worked as expected. But an issue remains: it still uses the German keyboard layout in Pinyin mode, i.e., when I press y, I get a z and vice versa.

How can I change the base layout of the Pinyin input method to English/Chinese?

schrodingerscatcuriosity
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Green绿色
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  • check this trend it might help your problem https://askubuntu.com/questions/254424/how-can-i-change-what-keys-on-my-keyboard-do-how-can-i-create-custom-keyboard – Joshua Johns Sep 10 '20 at 01:17

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Open /usr/share/ibus/component/libpinyin.xml for editing. Then change

<layout>default</layout>

to

<layout>us</layout>

for the libpinyin engine.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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  • Thanks, changing that mentioned file and logging out and logging in worked. – Green绿色 Sep 11 '20 at 00:50
  • Great! This works perfectly. I wasted quite a lot of time on this due to 1) it has to be us, not anything else. EN-US seems very appealing, but won't work; 2) you have to logging out.... – hzh Apr 26 '22 at 02:01