- create the .pam_environment file
~/.pam_environment
GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
- sudo pacman -S fcitx-googlepinyin fcitx-cloudpinyin
- sudo pacman -S kcm-fcitx
- install fcitx-gtk2 fcitx-gtk3 (important), which also fixes the error where you can only type in letters but the chinese characters do not appear in the box while using sogoupinyin.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/solved-cant-setup-fcitx-on-manjaro-kde/67862