How to install Chinese fonts and input method in Arch Linux

Stanley Meng
1 min readNov 13, 2017

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To install fonts:

  1. Find all the supported Chinese fonts here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fonts#Chinese
  2. 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:

  1. Run the command: sudo pacman -Syu fcitx fcitx-googlepinyin fcitx-im fcitx-configtool
  2. Edit ~/.xinitrc ( as I use startx):
    # .xprofile or .xinitrc
    export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
    export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
    export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
  3. Logout and then login
  4. Launch Fcitx Config GUI from contrl center, add Google Pinyin.
  5. Enjoy

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