[tlug-digest] Re: [tlug] Fedora Core 3 questions

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

I finally got to attack my languishing Fedora Core 3
installation. In January I asked:
>> (a) how do I get Gnome Terminal to talk to Canna? Can it use kinput2 in
>> XIM mode or do I have to use a different IM?
>> 
>> (b) ditto for Firefox. I assumed it would be OK to use the same
>> technique I used for Mozilla with RH7.3, in which I start it with:
>> "LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2 /usr/bin/mozilla" but it barfs at the
>> the "LANG" from which I assume the launcher in Fedora C3 is using a
>> different shell.

=?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIEZhcmthcw==?= <gabor@example.com> replied:
>> generally there's a faq:
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html

Very interesting. It'll take a while to absorb all that. Clearly the
Fedora/RH people have taken a large and solid step in the UTF8 direction
and I'll get into it once I have the legacy stuff working.

>> technically there's no need to use XIM anymore...
>> gtk2 based programs (like gnome-terminal or firefox) can use gtk2 input
>> modules which work much better...
>> 
>> there are many input methods, fedore seems to prefer iiimf.
>> so i would recommend you to use iiimf.
>> add the gimlet applet to the taskbar, and with that you should be able
>> to switch the languages easily..

Changing IME, or at least the interface can wait a bit. I'll get what I
can going with kinput2, then move on.

Joe Larabell <larabell@?jp> wrote:

>> There's already a utility, /usr/bin/env, that allows you to set env
>> variables before running any program. If it's really a case of the env
>> variables confusing the shell, the following should work:
>> 
>>   /usr/bin/env LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2 /usr/bin/mozilla

Great. That worked fine. In fact it is Firefox1.0, but no matter - it's
talking to kinput2 now and all is well

BTW, I came across a very good page on Linux/UTF8:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html    Rather Debian-flavoured, but
very interesting and useful.

Fedora also bit me because I could no longer get apps running on other
systems, e.g. the calendar on our Solaris server, to display under
Linux. It turned out I had to fiddle with the gdm config file as well as
the usual xhost/DISPLAY stuff.

Thanks for the advice so far, and I may have more questions once I
have got further in.

Jim

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