Re: FreeWNN questions

[Marc Christensen <marc@example.com>]

On 5 Sep 2001, Mike Fabian wrote:

> > (shift-space) is a box that says 'roma' in katakana.  It seems to hang the
> > kterm and kinput2 session at that point.  
> 
> Are you really sure that it hangs or are you just confused by
> the funny default user interface of Wnn with kinput2?
> 
> In case it is just a user interface problem, have a look at
> my home page, section "kinput2 and Wnn":
> 
>     http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/node51.html

Great.  I looked and follwed the instructions and it definitely seems to
be locked up.

I did a little more this time however.  I started kinput2 with a -jserver
option pointing to my local machine.

  kinput2 -xim -wnn -kinput -jserver nozomi &

I get a warning messege that says:

  Warning: XimpProtocol: SelectionClear event received
  Warning: KinputProtocol: SelectionClear event received
  Warning: mes_id = 207: Message not found.

Now, I think that messege id 207 is something like "cannot connect to
server" or something like that.  I remember seeing that output in Japanese
once.  I don't know why the messege catalogs arnt found in this
case.  Maybe I need to look at the install closer.

Anyway, when I set the -jserver option, I get hiragana output but no
conversion when I hit control-j.  Hitting shift-space clears the input.


> > Anyone know of this type of problem?  Is there a way to fix it?
> > 
> > Also, in my /etc/passwd file I created the wnn account entry:
> > 
> >   wnn:x:502:100:wnn:/dev/null:/bin/false
> > 
> > For more security, I set the home dir to /dev/null and the shell to
> > /bin/false.  However, I noticed that at www.freewnn.org/install.html the
> > wnn account has an entry like this:
> > 
> >   wnn:*:127:0::0:0:I am Wnn:/root:/bin/csh
> > 
> > Could this be causing my problems?  Does FreeWnn need csh as it's shell
> 
> No, I run it successfully with the following entry in /etc/passwd:
> 
>   wnn:x:66:100:Wnn System Account:/var/lib/wnn:/bin/false
> 
> > and does it need a home directory?
> 
> Don't know. /var/lib/wnn exists in my case and contains Wnn's
> dictionaries. 

OK, it seems that my setup should work (as far as directories and shells
go) too then.

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Marc C.
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