ibus-skk installation finished. To use ibus-skk, please do the following: If you are using bash or zsh, please add following lines to your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.zshrc: export XIM=ibus export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export XIM_PROGRAM="ibus-daemon" export XIM_ARGS="--daemonize --xim" If you are using tcsh, please add following lines to your $HOME/.cshrc: setenv XIM ibus setenv GTK_IM_MODULE ibus setenv QT_IM_MODULE xim setenv XMODIFIERS @im=ibus setenv XIM_PROGRAM ibus-daemon setenv XIM_ARGS "--daemonize --xim" If you are using KDE4, you may create a shell script in $HOME/.kde4/env, and add following lines: #!/bin/sh export XIM=ibus export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export XIM_PROGRAM="ibus-daemon" export XIM_ARGS="--daemonize --xim" If ibus cannot start or the panel does not appear, please ensure that you are using up-to-date python. There's a bug in python 2.5, which may prevent the panel from appearing.