Typing Chinese in English Ubuntu 14.04

1. Open Terminal


2. aptitude install scim scim-tables-zh  (and dependencies)
3. Logout or restart
4. right-click input area and select "Input Methods", change from "X input Method" to "SCIM Input Method".


5. Ctrl-spacebar should give you a scim toolbar

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Update:

scim seems to be a soon obsoleted input method and it crashed on Chrome while I was running in 14.04.  Now I tried ibus and it seems to work pretty well (yet).  

• In "Language Support", select "IBus" in Keyboard input methold system.
• Install / Remove Languages... select traditional Chinese
• In "Text Entry", click "+" to add Input sources (Chinese (cangjie3)
• In "Input Method", choose IBus
• change the keyboard shortcut, my own preference is Ctrl+Space
• make sure to check the box "Show current input source in the menu bar"

You probably need to logout/login to take IBus in effect