4) Open any software and press CTRL+SPACE to activate chinese input ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF not working you can as an alternative replace step 2) as follow:
2) alt+F2, gedit
type these few lines: scim -d export XMODIFIERS=@im=scim export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim gnome-session Save them under your home directory name: .xsession
Then open a terminal and type: $chmod +x .xsession
