How to input Chinese in dia

Question

My environment: Ubuntu 18.04

dia is a wonderful tool to draw flowchart. While I cannot input Chinese in box. I have tried fcitx and ibus and both failed.

Someone has prompt a method that edit script dia. But after dia upgrade，there is no dia-normal anymore.

Please help me. Any advise will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Ubuntu 18.04.4 environment:

~/.configis located under /home/[your user name]/.config

rm -R ~/.config/fcitx

reboot then everything works

Answer 2

Try to switch you input methods to x input method after starting Dia.

Right click in a text box and select "Input Methods" -> "X Input Method" from the popup menu

Or you can set GTK_IM_MODULE environment before start dia.

env GTK_IM_MODULE=xim dia