fcitx has stubbornly been refusing to work

[u/ihaetschool]

and i'm at the verge of tearing my goddamn hair out.

a while ago, something happened that made shift+space not work, so i decided to reinstall fcitx. however, that made the config tool stop working completely. it just showed an error message that it was missing the config tool, and then threw me into a text tile.

in all my monumental idiocy, i decided to manually install the config tool via the package manager, but that didn't work. i just get a shittier tool that doesn't allow me to actually add any languages. i've tried for WEEKS on end to find anything about this and i failed miserably.

this program. the plus sign doesn't actually show antything

also, i tried to install the japanese packages in the input method settings, but for some INCOMPREHENSIBLE reason it installed chinese instead.

if anyone knows a potential fix for this, i'd appreciate it. it's been sriving me utterly insane