Install sougou pinyin under Ubuntu 16.04

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Mar 5, 2017·2 min read

1. add a fcitx source

sudo apt-get-repository ppa:fcitx-team/nightly/

2. sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get insall -f

3. down sougou pinyin deb from sougou website

sudo dpkg -i sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_amd64.deb

will met this error:

No such key 'Gtk/IMModule' in schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings' as specified in override file '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/50_sogoupinyin.gschema.override'; ignoring override for this key.

it is not there actually.

➜  ~ gsettings list-keys org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings
disabled-gtk-modules
priority
hinting
overrides
rgba-order
antialiasing
active
enabled-gtk-modules

look at /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/50_sogoupinyin.gschema.override. It should be like this

[org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard]
active=false
[org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings]
overrides={‘Gtk/IMModule’:<’fcitx’>}
[com.canonical.indicator.keyboard]
visible=false

But it is

[org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard]
active=false
[org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings]
Gtk/IMModule=fcitx
[com.canonical.indicator.keyboard]
visible=false

solution:

mkdir -p extract/DEBIAN
#prepare the environ
dpkg-deb -x sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_amd64.deb extract/
# extract the content files
dpkg-deb -e sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_amd64.deb extract/DEBIAN
# extract the control file
vi extract/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/50_sogoupinyin.gschema.override
# correct the file
# change line 4 to overrides={'Gtk/IMModule':<'fcitx'>}
dpkg-deb -b extract/ ./sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_wkd.deb
# pack the files into deb installer file and save to current dir with name sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_wkd.deb
# 无果没有指定文件名，就和原文件名一样，这是在/extract/DEBIAN/control中定义的
sudo gdebi sogoupinyin_2.0.0.0078_wkd.deb
# install

In setting, Language support, select fcitx in “keyboard input method system”

fcitx-configtool

打开fcitx的配置项， 点击下方的+号，注意取消勾选“Only show current language”，找到sogoupinyin进行添加，即可 通过 Ctrl+空格进行输入法切换了.

sogou-qimpanel 命令是启动搜狗输入法的。
如果还是切换不出输入法，那么执行下面的操作：
配置Fcitx的环境:在~/.bashrc中加入一下内容

export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx    
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx    
export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"