So earlier I found out Fcitx doesn’t work under WPS on Linux. And there’s an issue about it on Jionglian’s tracker too: https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5/issues/83 The solution everyone on the internet gives is to set: env QT4_IM_MODULE="fcitx5" and then launch WPS, after which the IME works. That did jack shit for me. And from what Jionglian has said in various places (GitHub, IRC, SNS), setting it to fcitx5 isn’t actually fixing anything — it fails to find a real “fcitx5” and falls back to xim, which is why it works. So why the hell are we setting “fcitx5” at all? Just set “xim” directly!

The great Weng-face finally shipped the stable release of Fcitx 5. He didn’t bother writing a proper release announcement — just sent a message to his own mailing list, so I’d guess most people have no idea this happened. Doesn’t matter! Fcitx 5 stable is out, and in the time it takes to jerk off once, it’s already at 5.0.2!

This article is outdated. For the current method of installing the stable Fcitx5 release on Ubuntu 20.04, go here: /archives/12285/ I went back and forth on whether to put Ubuntu in the title. Decided it was necessary, because right now only Arch Linux (and Debian) have the full Fcitx 5 suite — thanks to nepotism and cold-shoulder vibes respectively — and every single Fcitx 5 install guide online is written for Arch or Debian. All of them copied from each other. Basically zero Ubuntu. I spent a long time poking at Ubuntu’s packages before I noticed Ubuntu 20.04 can already install it.