How can I delete useless text entry in the drop down menu?

Question

In order to type Chinese in Ubuntu, I tried the method described here.

In short, what I did was typing two lines in terminal, which are:

sudo apt-get install ibus-libpinyin
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources | sed "s/]/, ('ibus', 'libpinyin')]/")"

And then I found it didn't work for me, so I uninstall the package by this:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ibus-libpinyin

However, the text entry menu looks like this:

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How can I delete these two gray items 'libpinyin' in the drop down menu? I couldn't find them in keyboard--textentry

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score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 27 '18 at 06:46

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This happened to me too. I tried the following steps:

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run gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources
go to System Settings and click Text Entry.
add input source you need back.

Everything went back to normal!

edited Feb 27 '18 at 06:46

David Foerster

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answered Feb 27 '18 at 04:59

Kafe Chang

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OP wants to delete input sources, not add them. – David Foerster Feb 27 '18 at 06:47
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I think they meant that all the sources will be deleted, not just the ones you want to delete, so you need to add back in any you didn't mean to delete. – Chai T. Rex Feb 27 '18 at 07:27

How can I delete useless text entry in the drop down menu?

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