Re: [tlug] [IME] :P Which IME does everyone use?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 07:53:32AM -1000, Bart Mathias wrote:
> burlingk@example.com wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com Behalf Of


> >>Scott Robbins 

I wrote:

> >>However in an alpha of the latest Ubuntu (something Gibbon) I did the
> >>following. 
> >>In .bashrc
> >>
> >>export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
> >>export LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8

Ken wrote:
> >>
> >That was part of what I was complaining about.
> >For me, doing that is not so hard, but for the
> >average user, who doesn't know an RC file from
> >an email...  Not so good ^^;

Bart writes:

> 
I hadn't felt the need to enter Korean for 
> months, so I theoretically shouldn't even remember how to start the SCIM/Anthy 
> business.
> 
> I chanced to start Thunderbird from Konsole a few days ago without the prefix.  
> Lo and also behold!  Up comes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> bart@example.com:~$ selected locale: en-US
> Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
> DOUBLE-CLICK: 250 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.0.2
> 
> Starting as daemon ...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> and there's the odd little icon in the panel I can click on to type my choice 
> of Japanese, Korean, or English.
> 
> Puzzle #1 for me:  Why does this happen, and why doesn't it happen with 
> LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS=@example.com on the front of the command (I would have 
> thought I'd need something similar with maybe "anthy" replacing "kinput2")?
> 
> I have no plain .bashrc at all.  I did find a /root/.bashrc and an 
> /etc/bash.bashrc, but neither of them seem to have anything to do with the 
> matter.

You didn't say what version of Linux you're using.  I've had this happen
on occasion with Arch, I always put it down to having
GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" in .xinitrc, but never investigated.

In a followup post of mine, I mentioned that in the latest Ubuntu, it
seems that the only thing I have to do is install Japanese support (and
perhaps install scim-anthy--I don't know if that gets installed with
Japanese support.)
  
After doing that, it seems that scim is up and running from the time I
log in, and anytime I hit ctl+space, scim comes up and I can enter
Japanese.  

This is without doing anything on my part--no entries to .bashrc,
.bash_profile, etc. 

So, if you're running a later Ubuntu, this might happen just because you
have Japanese support enabled.  



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