Re: [tlug] Japanese Input - Kubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
>> Reboot after second full installation - still no Japanese input.  The
>> really frustrating thing is that I was able to set up my computer with
>> almost no problems before...

Come to think of it - the most recent successful installation I did
was with Ubuntu and not Kubuntu...

> I've certainly have had less problems than you using the latest
> versions of Ubuntu.  (Several versions ago, it was a nightmare; I gave
> up getting an IME altogether!)  However, I use gnome...perhaps that's
> the problem?  Maybe you could do an Ubuntu install but select KDE as
> the graphical environment.  Or you can install both gnome and KDE and
> see if it's easier to get it with one over the other.

Some details that I had forgotten are coming back to me.  For some
reason (very possibly *this* reason), I gave up on Kubuntu and used
Ubuntu on a machine I set up a while back - even though I really hate
the UI and hate most of the default applications it has, but it was
easy enough to install the applications I like and [Alt]+[Tab] makes
the system usable.

I'll try poking around on-line a little more and see if I can come up
with some way to get Japanese input working on this computer, and if I
can't solve it, I'll trash installation #2 and go for installation #3
using something else - Ubuntu, or the local group version of Ubuntu (I
think it's a pretty good indication that something is f***ed up when a
local group is maintaining their own version of Ubuntu), or something
esle.

Lyle