I am enjoying the change to MX-14. Of course it is different to 'antiX-13.2' and I have to find my way into it. However, what I discovered up to know is very much to my liking and the machine is running well.

I am looking for one solution:
I installed Ibus for Chinese. Fonts are working and input methods are installed and set up. But when trying to switch over to the Chinese input method, the key combination does not trigger the switch to Chinese input. When right clicking on the Ibus Icon in the panel the following message appears: 'No Input Window', even though a browser and a LibreOffice document is open. Any idea what could be missing or need to be changed to enable the switch of input methods?

Below some details regarding the setup and machine.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Tian Lan

panel, Kernel : Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-486 (i686)
Compiled : #1 Debian 3.12.9-1~bpo70+1 (2014-02-07)
C Library : Unknown
Default C Compiler : GNU C Compiler version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
Distribution : MX-14
Desktop Environment : XFCE 4
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Memory : 503MB (253MB used)
Operating System : MX-14

Maybe this will work,

use-ibus-input-method-of-antix-13-t5101.html

I edited the file '.profile' by editing the recommendations. It looks like this now:
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
… here is more text in the file, if you need to see it, then let me know...
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

export XMODIFIERS='@im=IBUS'
export GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus"
export QT_IM_MODULE="ibus"


The file '.initrd-custom' was not existing in the home folder. I created it and it contains now just the line:
ibus-daemon -d -x

I guess my creations weren't that good, ibus did not change it’s behavior...
Did I do something obviously wrong, or is their another hint?

I just found out that besides IBUS not acting, also Catfish is not opening when asked to open. Are these two issues known or just a problem here?

In the case of MX-14, the procedure of antiX does not validate iBus.
The procedure that I wrote is a procedure only for antiX.
Please use package im-switch (or im-config) to validate iBus in MX-14.
or
In addition, When you install package Chinese_input in metapackages
Please install package ibus-gtk3 and python-appindicator.
You should report a result, MX-14 is point released soon. This may update metapackages.
Activity of MEPIS Community Forum is active about MX-14. I reported it here.

@Balloon
In addition to your guideline the terminal requested:
$ im-switch -s ibus
Please install following packages:
"( ibus-gtk or ibus-qt4 or ibus-clutter )" .

Thus installed the package ibus-qt4
ran once more the restarted the computer

And after the steps above I am able to say:

Thanks for your help. Chinese Input with IBus is now working.
谢谢你的帮忙。
天蓝
TianLan