Re: [tlug] Japanese on CentOS4.1

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:00:28PM +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I followed the following,
> 
> http://www.qnd-guides.org/qnd-japanese.html
> 
> and installed scim, anthy and scim-anthy, all from source, and put this,
> 
> export XMODIFIERS='@example.com=SCIM'
> export GT_IM_MODULE='scim'
> export QT_IM_MODULE='scim'
> export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
> scim -d


Ironically enough, it was someone using CentOS who let me know that an
outdated version of that page and the one referenced towards the end,
were, err,  outdated. 

When I tested the instructions for RH based distros, I might have used
Fedora itself--I don't remember now, it was either that or BLAG. 
I know it wasn't CentOS itself though.

> 
> 
> into my ~/.bash_profile and I'm seeing that the gnome-terminal is now using the 
> fonts as if I'm running Japanese, but, when running an app, say Firefox or 
> Thunderbird, I get nothing, with Ctrl+space. I was expecting to get something 
> like it states on the page I'm following,


Yes, you should have.

I suppose suggesting you dump CentOS and use Arch, where I tested every
app, isn't a reasonable suggestion.  :-(

The first step might be to also put those lines into .bashrc.  That
~might~ do it, but I suspect it won't.  

So, Gnome terminal works, that's a start.  


> 
> ****
> With scim anthy, hit ctl+space and you should see a little widget in the lower 
> right of your screen. It should do the same thing, show hiragana. When you hit 
> the space bar, kanji should be selected.
> ****
> 
> but I don't.

You don't see the widget?


> 
> I've confirmed that scim is in fact running,
> 
> [batmanbegins@example.com ~]$ ps auxxx | grep scim
> 500       3379  0.0  0.9 29896 4648 ?        Ss   12:10   0:00 
> 
BTW, there's a utility called pgrep which is nice (easier to type in my
opinion).  You could do 

pgrep scim 

and you should get back several pids.

> 
> Do I really need to remove it via yum, as suggested? I'm running 
> Firefox/Thunderbird as the same user. I've also tried with uxterm, as the page 
> suggests. What have I NOT done, that I should have.? Cheers.

Did uxterm work?   

Take a look at the page referenced, the
http://www.scottro.net/jpninpt.html  (or it might by
home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html, they should be the same)
which went into more detail about an RH based distro. 

If Gnome terminal is working, try, just for the heck of it, starting
firefox or thunderbird from a terminal.

First doublecheck that everything is as it should be

echo $LC_CTYPE
echo $XMODIFIERS
echo $GTK_IM_MODULE

and make sure that they come out showing the things you put in your
.bash_profile.

Then, from that terminal start thunderbird, for example, and see if it
works.

I do remember that the other fellow who had problems with CentOS said
that the revised page (the other page, not the qnd one) worked for him. 

I would make sure that Canna doesn't run on boot up.

chkconfig --del canna

(It might be upper case, check with 

ls /etc/rc3.d | grep -i canna

If that doesn't show anything then change the rc3.d to rc5.d
If it shows something S96Canna then change --del canna to --del Canna.

(Note that this isn't removing canna from the system, it's simply making
it not run on startup.)

Anyway, it's almost 2:00 AM here, so I probably won't see your response
till tomorrow. 

Let me know if any of these suggestions help.


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