Re: [tlug] Lost Japanese Input in OpenOffice

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

This is getting really frustrating.

I read a web page where a guy described a problem similar to mine, and 
he said he solved it by simply going to "System -> Administration -> 
Language Selector" and selecting Japanese. Then Japanese input was 
magically available in OpenOffice.

I discovered that I didn't have a "Language Selector" option in my 
"System -> Administration" menu. So I downloaded and installed that 
package. When I first opened it, it gave me a little warning that said 
that I didn't have all the packages necessary to support my language 
options. It gave me an option to download those packages, and some of 
them were OpenOffice relate. Great, I thought. Seems to be on the right 
track, anyway.

But, after doing that and making sure that both English and Japanese 
were enabled as available languages, I discovered that I *still* can't 
get any Japanese input in OpenOffice.

And, to add insult to injury, I now have this extra icon in my Gnome 
Panel (it looks like a grey keyboard), and this more annoying floating 
menu for SCIM hanging around on my desktop.

I already have UIM set up to handle Japanese input (which, again, works 
for everything except OpenOffice), so this added interface noise is not 
helping.

I've tried uninstalling SCIM, but it seems to not die without wanting to 
take down Anthy and UIM with it. And I tried simply selecting "Hide 
Menu" from the SCIM options, but it simply won't go away.

How do I get this damned SCIM interface to go away?

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Dave M G
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