Bug#441443: SCIM with Anthy do not work with OpenOffice.org Writer

[Ming Hua <minghua-guest@users.alioth.debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:50:34PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, +06:30:42 EEST (UTC +0300),
> Ming Hua <minghua-guest@users.alioth.debian.org> pressed some keys:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:49:19PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I use scim (the GTK+ panel) with scim-pinyin without any problem
> > in OO.o.
> 
> > > No, matter how much I press Ctrl-Space, SCIM do not appear at all. I
> > > configured key board shortcuts of OpenOffice.org and removed Ctrl-Space.
> > > It did not fix the problem, at all.

I'm just saying that OO.o and scim combination works fine for me.  You
are using a scim setting different from the recommendations given by the
Debian scim package, so it may be your scim setting's problem, not
OO.o's problem.

> > You can try changing the scim activation key to something other than
> > Ctrl-space.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions of suitable activation keys? I just tried
> Ctrl-F6 without success.

I don't think the problem is about activation keys.

> > > These environment variables are set during startup of my X:
> > > 
> > > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
> > > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
> > > export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
> 
> > Did you start scim during X startup?
> 
> Not at the moment when I sent that bug-report. Before that I had had some
> scim -command during startup of X with different command flags, and it
> did not work, either.
> 
> My latest attempt looks like this:
> 
> exec /usr/bin/scim -d -f x11 -e socket,anthy,libanthy &
> 
> Here are some former attempts:
> 
> exec /usr/bin/scim -d   &
> exec /usr/bin/scim -d -c socket -f x11 -e socket &
> exec /usr/bin/scim -d -c socket -f x11 -e anthy &
> exec /usr/bin/scim -d -c socket -f x11 -e anthy,socket &
> 
> What is the right combination of options I should use?

As I've said, these are different from Debian scim package's
recommendation (I am the scim maintainer and I wrote those docs if you
haven't noticed).  I am not familiar with KDE's startup scripts so I
can't give really good suggestions.

I would suggest you try the following:
1. Remove all your manual settings about SCIM;
2. Without scim running, modify ~/.scim/global file, and add
   "/SupportedUnicodeLocales = fi_FI.UTF-8" line in it.  See the
   "Locales" section in /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz for more
   explanation.
3. Install im-switch package, and run "im-switch -s scim".  Read the
   output to make sure im-switch is set properly.

If SCIM still doesn't work for OO.o in KDE after these settings, please
report a bug against scim package.

Thanks,
Ming
2007.09.12