Typing in pinyin in the GIMP text tool

[kake]

Hello! I want to make myself an icon along the lines of the pretty-coloured text ones that blnchflr did a tutorial for, but I've run across a small problem.

I'm using GIMP 2.6.7 on OS X 10.6.2, and I cannot get the text tool to let me type in pinyin, nor can I get it to admit that I have Chinese fonts installed. Has anyone here got any experience in making this work?

Edited to add: Sorted thanks to ewx and dragonwolf (see comments).

Comments

[dragonwolf]

Have you tried using CTRL instead of CMD (for all shortcuts) when in Gimp? If I remember right, one of the biggest complaints the Apple community has with X11 apps is that it's not integrated enough, including the shortcut keys.

(If you're not familiar with non-Mac computers, CTRL is the non-Mac key for shortcuts. For the common shortcuts, CMD in Mac nearly always maps to CTRL in non-Mac.)

[kake]

Oh, nice one, thank you! CTRL-v does indeed work to paste!