@baimafeima have you tried adding

ibus-daemon -drx

in startup applications instead? this way it should start as a daemon without loading Ibus settings to click away upon startup.

In T1505#79729, @baimafeima wrote:

... most terminal-based dictionaries are not maintained anymore.

still relevant for Solus-3-MATE.iso.
cheers!

@atoms i've had similar warning message (WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.) lately when installing Arch and generating grub.cfg while chrooting with os-prober installed. was surprised to see that, since i've never had any luks or any disk encryption. my workaround was to uninstall os-prober, generate grub.cfg for currently installed os only (only one entry in grub) and then after reboot, when no longer chrooted, install os-prober and generate a new grub.cfg
cheers!

hey guys! thanks a lot!
@kyrios123 as much as i love StarDict, the biggest reason for not mentioning it was the fact that its development seems stalled unfortunately (https://code.google.com/archive/p/stardict-3/downloads)...

Noticed this as well. Here's what i get after the fresh login as the output of sudo journalctl | grep marco-no-composite
Jun 17 17:40:00 sm mate-session[6040]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'marco-no-composite' of required component 'windowmanager'

@baimafeima thanks for bringing this topic up again :)
It was a separate MATE edition iso

@baimafeima it loads, it shows symbols for english, russian and pinyin (en, ru, 拼) in the tray, but it never gives me that window showing appropriate words for your pinyin. Neither automatically after the install, nor after adding those export gtk_im_module lines to any of the places i could possibly think of, not even after launching, lets say firefox, from the terminal with that GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus option. I very much believe in the end it's something i'm not doing right, i'm just out of ideas :)
And yes, it is Mate edition, i did come across this thread before choosing between the two :)

@baimafeima hm... i dont know... i give up). It never worked for me, even after todays fresh reinstall...
thanks a ton for your time!

@baimafeima much appreciated!

In T2048#35876, @baimafeima wrote:

got the same problem as OP in Mate version (Linux solus 4.9.6 #1 SMP Sun Jan 29 01:32:07 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux). Up to date system, ibus 1.5.14, ibus-libpinyin 1.8.1 Currently trying to enable ibus by adding the following strings to /etc/profile
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
ibus-daemon -drx