SCIM 表示 'Smart common input method' (http://www.scim-im.org)。 SCIM 引擎可以作为包括像中文这样的复杂的语言的任何语言的输入法 。用 SCIM 的 table 创建键盘很容易。

SCIM 是一个不错的 xkb 切换键盘布局的替代方案。SCIM 提供了一些 xkb 没有的功能。我个人用它来输入古希腊语， 尖希伯来语和中文。

SCIM is no more difficult to setup in XFCE than in Gnome or KDE. The easiest, user-level way to set up SCIM is to edit the .Xsession file:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG
XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export XMODIFIERS
GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export GTK_IM_MODULE
scim -d&

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Set LANG to your own local language, of course. SCIM should work as long as the locale is UTF-8. After doing this, SCIM will work in XFCE by default.

Good luck, and have fun.