Chinese Input Support
Without switching to a Chinese locale (or having your menus and stuff switched to Chinese). These steps worked for me in Karmic.
- Go to System > Administration > Language Support > Install / Remove Languages
- Select Chinese (simplified) and check all the components available
- From Synaptic Package Manager, install scim and scim-pinyin
- Start Terminal and run
im-switch -c
and choose “scim-bridge” - Reboot
- Use control-space to toggle the Chinese/pinyin IME 就可以写中文了!
Help gleaned from here mainly.