Gfilui

Non-working softwares:

After installing the built-in Wubi option and one third-party, listed here:

1. Wubihaifang86;


2. ibus's Wubi-Jidan86.

I looked for a few other options but could not find anything I could install.

The problem:

In the two mentioned above, if you type more than one hanzi's pinyin, the select table disappears.

Typical WUBI:

In normal Chinese Wubi input, you type the word and then select the hanzi associated with the word. If you type a sentence, you can select each of the possible words (words appear first) or possible hanzi (the possibilities for the current hanzi appear after all the word candidates). For example, if I type "wode jia shi dafang", I would then type "1 1 1 42" meaning first word, first word, first word, fourth character and second character.

No workaround:

So, I'm looking for a Wubi that has the typical behavior. If I type a word, such as dafang, I should see all the candidates for the entire word "dafang" (maybe 10 possibilities would appear). Instead, I type daf, and the table disappears; furthermore, if I type only da, then there are hundreds of possibilities (so, there's no good workaround). The best I can do is use an online conversion tool, which requires VPN (a whole second set of problems).

Useful link:

linhttp://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/07/2-best-chinese-pinyin-im-ubuntu-16-04/

My guide (with changes)--Ubuntu-Mate 16.04:

1. Open terminal (ctrl-alt-t) and type sudo apt install fcitx fcitx-googlepinyin fcitx-table-wbpy fcitx-pinyin fcitx-sunpinyin followed by your password. //fcitx is the main, and the others are virtual keyboard options I think.


2. Press super to open your launcher and launch Language Support. //sorry, I don't know a terminal solution, yet: I hope that I can find one in the near future. Ubuntu might need to install Language Support on first run: just click yes and wait then proceed to step three.
   


3. Set Keyboard input method system: to fcitx.


4. Close the dialog and restart your computer. This seems to be a necessary step; however, relogging might be enough (not tested).


5. 
   

   Right-click the new keyboard icon in the tray. One of two things might happen:

   
   
   

   a. You can click "configure"; or,

   
   
   

   b. You need to click on your default language before you see a., and then you'll see a..

   
   


6. Click + and detoggle Only Show Current Language; scroll to the very tippy bottom and select a non-keyboard option (Wubi--works, tested--, Google Pinyin, Pinyin, Shuangpin, or Sunpinyin). //I did not test any of the methods other than Wubi.


7. Go to Global Config and change Extra key for trigger input method to Alt_L_Shift (this is my personal preference, and the default L_Shift is an inane decision for a default setting; however, that's the default that's forced down people's throats by Microsoft, also). Unless you regularly use three or more languages, you might want to disable the trigger and disable the scroll-through, also.


8. Before the keyboard shortcut works, you'll need to right-click the keyboard icon in the tray and select input method > Wubi Pinyin.

This is 100% working for me; however, before doing this, I tried the programs mentioned in the question, itself. So, if installing those programs or their sub-components is required for success, please notify me via comment for an update. Meanwhile, if I notice after removing those packages that some aspect was necessary, I will send an update. Good luck and enjoy using PRC Pinyin.