To activate ibus-mozc, please add the following into ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, or ~/.kde4/env (for KDE4): export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus %%PREFIX%%/bin/mozc start ibus-daemon -r --daemonize --xim Note that textproc/ibus-qt with IBUS option is required to make QT_IM_MODULE=ibus work.