Re: [tlug] Getting Japanese input working

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

Thanks for the responses.

On 2019-09-14 07:58, Jim Breen wrote:
> Since I moved to Ubuntu about 10 years ago Japanese input has worked
> "out of the box". ...

Well, in the old days you had to copy some instructions from somewhere, 
and it was a bit complicated, but when things didn't work you could look 
at the instructions and puzzle things out. Now it's all blobs; you click 
the blob, it whirrs a bit, then informs you that everything is working 
perfectly. I struggled a bit, and now ibus is "working": I can actually 
enter Japanese and Russian text successfully.

But usability is dire. I cannot find out anything about configuring ibus 
(or anthy), so I am stuck with the following:

* I can only change language by poking the (invisible) icon
* The "icon" consists of very very dark blue letters on a slightly light 
black background

So I really need to know:

* Would fcitx-mozc make any or all of this easier?
* Assuming I eventually work out how to assign hotkeys, does anyone have 
advice for how to do it with >2 scripts (not "languages", though that's 
what they get called)? The previous default is ctrl-space, which is fine 
except that it's a single poke, and never clear which script you are 
going to get taken to. Is there a convention on types of key combination 
generally avoided by applications so they can be used for system things?