Re: [tlug] Getting scim to work

["Niels Kobschaetzki" <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Niels Kobschaetzki
<n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
>  > On 22/03/2008, Niels Kobschaetzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  I am not sure if I have to use .xinitrc or .xsession (one site in the
>  >  >  net says .xinitrc, another .xsession) I have put in both:
>  >  >  export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
>  >  >  export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
>  >  >  export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
>  >  >  export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
>  >  >
>  >  >  But I have the feeling that those are ignored.
>  >
>  >  Maybe.
>  >
>  >  Try setting these in a terminal, and then launching your app from there, e.g.
>  >
>  >  pgrep scim || scim -d
>  >
>  > export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
>  >  export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
>  >  export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
>  >  export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
>  >  firefox &
>  >
>  >  Does that work? Or is there at least useful STDERR spew?
>
>  That works.
>  I tried now ~/.config/xinitrc and .bash_profile as well
>  (try'n'error…kinda desperated…) and that gets ignored, too…

It works now.
I had to copy /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to
~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc (before I used the wrong one) and had to put
the 4 lines from above (all starting with export) before the line that
states:

# Run xfce4-session if installe
xfcesm='which xfce4-session' and so on...

Thx for the help.

Niels