Better Chinese Input on Fedora 43

There were always a pain point there when I using Fedora - The Chinese Input , there is one , but hard to use.

One Day a link come from Jianhong Yin,

https://blog.amyinfo.com/2024-12-28-setup-fcitx5-on-fedora/

It is a quite simple article on that page:

1. Install fcitx5

   sudo dnf install fcitx5 fcitx5-chinese-addons

2. Config .xinitrc

   cat >> $HOME/.xinitrc <<"EOF"
   export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
   export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
   export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
   EOF
   

3. Enable fcitx for Gnome

   gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/IMModule':<'fcitx'>}"
   

After configure with these steps. there are 2 questions come to my mind:

1. How could I know which Input method I am using right now?

2. How to determine my Chinese Input is better than the another one?

3. How to know which input method I’m using right now?

Before

fan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 ~ $ echo $XMODIFIERS
@im=ibus
ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 ~ $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE

ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 ~ $ echo $QT_IM_MODULE
ibus
ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 ~ $ 

After

ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 _posts (main) $ echo $XMODIFIERS

ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 _posts (main) $ echo $GTK_IM_MODULE

ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 _posts (main) $ echo $QT_IM_MODULE
ibus
ffan@ffan-thinkpadt14gen5 _posts (main) $ 

I wonder if it needs a GNOME restart or not