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Edit Aug. 2022: Ubuntu has been through a lot in the past decade. The latest LTS, 22.04, has a slightly more friendly way for non-western languages.

Check out this more recent post: https://askubuntu.com/a/1408874/316146

  • Use the Ubuntu Settings interface.
  • Don't bother with fiddling with built-in Ibus or installing fcitx.
  • Reboot after adding the language and before adding the input source.
  • If you are not satisfied, save your efforts. Buy a Windows.

After installing IBUS and pinyin input method, I want to set the preferences for this particular input method. It should be something like "Using Traditional Characters in the IBus Pinyin IME" in this webpage.

But when I click the "Preferences" button in the floating window, as shown below, nothing appears. Clicking on Ibus icon and then "Preferences" does not work as well.

button

I tried with Pinyin and Sunpinyin, but neither gives a pop-up window. I'm expecting to a "Shuangpin" option in that window.

It's something like this problem but I'm running on a recently installed Ubuntu 14.04, xfce4, in a crouton environment.

How can I get the "Preference" window pop up?

Please note that I can type Chinese with pinyin input method. I just want to configure the preferences for that particular input method, so the problem isn't about how to install ibus or installing an input method.

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This issue is probably caused by python versions.

Don't modify ubuntu's default python version unless necessary, because that may broke various things, in my experience.

Try to run ibus-setup, to see what is causing the preference from starting. Then try to fix it.

In my case, it's because I have installed python3 (v3.9) via brew.

While the default python3 is v3.5, after install the system.

After uninstall brew's python via:

brew remove python3 brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python3

Then re-open another terminal to take effect, then the issue is fixed.

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To copy an answer from this Launchpad thread:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1730395

@KANGOD install python-ibus from trusy-update will solve the problem. i download one from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/python-ibus/1.5.5-1ubuntu3.2, and install the deb with dpkg -i

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Go to System Settings -> Text Entry, select Pinyin or SunPinyin and click the tool icon.

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  • Well....thanks, but :( There isn't "Text Entry" – Yvon Aug 21 '14 at 00:30
  • @Yvon: Then you don't have Ubuntu 14.04, right? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 21 '14 at 01:46
  • It's a crouton environment. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton – Yvon Aug 21 '14 at 16:11
  • @Yvon: Can't tell if that matters. But the desktop environment certainly does, and I see now that you have xfce, and not Unity, which I assumed when you in the title said Ubuntu 14.04. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 21 '14 at 23:35
  • Yes I use xfce, which I think does not have "Text Entry" as in Unity. But what really hurts is clicking on the button in the screenshot should yield a pop-up window, but it doesn't. Maybe Unity is the only solution, but since it's a Chromebook I don't have abundant storage for the GUI. – Yvon Aug 21 '14 at 23:44
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    @Yvon: Possibly the Ubuntu specific ibus patches (due to Unity) have something to do with it. But now I'm just guessing. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Aug 22 '14 at 00:00
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I had the similar issue with mint mate 17.2 which seems base on ubuntu 14.04.1.

Fix it:

And I fixed it by install python-ibus:

sudo apt-get install python-ibus

Then you can open the preference windows for sunpinyin.

As a summary:

When install ibus, you better use following command:

sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-table ibus-sunpinyin python-ibus

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