How to install Chinese fonts and input method in Arch Linux
1 min readNov 13, 2017
To install fonts:
- Find all the supported Chinese fonts here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fonts#Chinese
- Run the command: sudo pacman -S <font name>. e.g sudo pacman -S adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts
To install Chinese inputs:
This article works for me http://www.fanz.io/2015/10/10/fcitx-notes.html
Let me add the steps here in case the URL doesn’t work for you:
- Run the command: sudo
pacman -Syu fcitx fcitx-googlepinyin fcitx-im fcitx-configtool
- Edit ~/.xinitrc ( as I use startx):
# .xprofile or .xinitrc
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx - Logout and then login
- Launch Fcitx Config GUI from contrl center, add Google Pinyin.
- Enjoy