blackbox and icewm

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Had any luck with this?
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott  <scottro@example.com> writes:

    Scott> I am guessing that I'm missing something obvious, but....
    Scott> I have two boxes, one running RH7.1 English, the other
    Scott> Japanese.

    Scott> In the English distro, if I run blackbox or icewm, start
    Scott> kinput, open a kterm, I have no trouble inputting Japanese.

    Scott> In the Japanese distro, however, though, if I start with
    Scott> KDE, kinput starts automatically and everything is hunky
    Scott> dory, if I start either blackbox or icewm, start kinput
    Scott> (which doesn't start with those two window managers) and
    Scott> open a kterm, the shift + space combination doesn't do
    Scott> anything, save move the cursor over a bit.

What does "echo $LANG; echo $XMODIFIERS" say in your kterm?  If these
are set incorrectly, properly coded applications will be unable to
input Japanese via kinput2.  The most likely to be correct values are

LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2    # yes there are TWO equals signs there

From the kterm, try starting a new kterm with "kterm -xim".  Does this
help?

Is an input server (Canna, Wnn, ATOK, etc) running?  (ps aux | less to
see what's running.)

Move the mouse cursor to the kterm, and select "Open Input Method"
from the VT Options menu (last option, pop up the menu with
Control-MiddleButton).  What does it say?

Find out how KDE gets started, where its init scripts are and stuff
(often in /etc/X11).  Check in them to see what correct settings for
the environment variables are.

How do the menus/icons get set up?  Under Debian there is a common set
of menu configurations, which all properly configured WMs use.  But in
many distros these need to be configured one by one.  Figure out how
to get the properties for the KDE menu item/icon to find the command
line (to see if any special options are used).


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