Hello, I just started NixOS, playing around with it to learn a day ago. I’m trying to add Fcitx5 and I can’t get it to work, it keeps giving me errors. I copied and pasted the config from https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Fcitx5 and It tells me..
error:
… while evaluating the attribute 'config'
at /nix/store/4lv1f8kvx16bi3ph1zidbs9gdrnvnikd-nixos-25.11.650.8bb5646e0bed/nixos/lib/modules.nix:361:9:
360| options = checked options;
361| config = checked (removeAttrs config [ "_module" ]);
| ^
362| _module = checked (config._module);
… while calling the 'seq' builtin
at /nix/store/4lv1f8kvx16bi3ph1zidbs9gdrnvnikd-nixos-25.11.650.8bb5646e0bed/nixos/lib/modules.nix:361:18:
360| options = checked options;
361| config = checked (removeAttrs config [ "_module" ]);
| ^
362| _module = checked (config._module);
(stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)
error: attempt to call something which is not a function but a set: { i18n = «thunk»; }
at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:7:1:
6|
7| {
| ^
8| i18n.inputMethod = {
Command 'nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' --attr config.system.build.nixos-rebuild --no-out-link' returned non-zero exit status 1.
I tried the one for unstable and stable. I don’t know why it has a problem with {because i did close it at the end (I copied from the official wiki)
Here is my config-
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
i18n.inputMethod = {
type = "fcitx5";
enable = true;
fcitx5.addons = with pkgs; [
fcitx5-gtk # alternatively, kdePackages.fcitx5-qt
fcitx5-chinese-addons # table input method support
fcitx5-nord # a color theme
];
};
}
{
imports =
[ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
./hardware-configuration.nix
];
When I get rid of { it then tells me its got a problem with the =. Someone please respond and help me. I’m trying to type in Chinese, maybe I need another configuration. 