Re: [tlug] SuSE 10

[sjs <sjs@example.com>]

I did hit one minor problem though.  The first time I tried to unlock the
screen, the IME was catching my input, so I couldn't unlock the screen.
If this happens, just use ShiftSpace to turn off the IME.

Steve S.
sjs wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I'm a bit reluctant to post this because compared to all of you, I am 
> a complete novice
> with Japanese on Linux.  That said however,  I just installed SuSE 10 
> on one of my
> laptops and so far my impression is very positive.
>
> I did just the basic english install, then selected language japanese, 
> experienced user,
> KDE educational and games, multimedia, and to be honest, I don't know 
> what all else.
>
> Anyway, things seem to work exceedingly well.  The IME comes up 
> without any special
> environmental settings, and is something called SKIM.  Shift Space 
> brings up the IME
> as one would expect.  The IME has two icons -- a keyboard and a 
> wrench.  I right
> clicked on the keyboard icon and selected Japanese/Canna and 
> everything seems
> to be working.  There were about 12 other selections under Japanese 
> for the
> input besides Canna, but I don't know any of them so stuck with Canna.
>
> I just checked and using an mlterm, the LANG variable is set to 
> en_US.UTF-8.
>
> I don't know enough Japanese to really exercise the dictionaries, but 
> all the basic
> stuff I know worked.   I tried things like watashi, kyou, konban, 
> konnichi, tsutsumi,
> kodutsumi and all translated to Kanji with no problems.  It has 
> OpenOffice 2.0
> and that's what I did most of the testing in.
>
> Also, this is the first out-of-the-box install I've done where the 
> hibrenate worked
> on my laptop, which is a 2 year old HP ze4430us.
>
> I followed the SuSE 9.3 thread about 6 months ago and had also 
> installed it on this same
> laptop.  After all the problems discussed on the list, and lacking 
> time to do anything
> anyway, I never went any further after the install.  My other systems 
> had 8something
> and 9.2 and were working fine.  It looks like maybe they have UTF-8 
> pretty well
> integrated in this time.
>
> Steve S.
> Santa Rosa, CA.
>