I finally got ibus-pinyin working correctly: the following steps are all necessary and must be performed in order.
1: remove pinyin from the list of available engines
2: run the command: dconf reset -f /desktop/ibus/
3: reboot the computer
4: re-enable ibus-pinyin.
I finally got ibus-pinyin working correctly: the following steps are all necessary and must be performed in order.
1: remove pinyin from the list of available engines
2: run the command: dconf reset -f /desktop/ibus/
3: reboot the computer
4: re-enable ibus-pinyin.