Re: A question about /etc/profile
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> >>>>> I added the following lines to /etc/profile:
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>>>>> >>>>> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
>>>>> >>>>> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
>
>
>>> [...] putting those `export' commands in /etc/profile has the advantage
>>> that I can put chinese characters also in the command line, with `C-space'.
>>> The disadvantage is that scim is automatically started every time I start
>>> the Terminal application, even if I don't want to use scim. The Terminal is
>>> slowed down when starting.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, running those three commands from command line has the
>>> advantage that I start scim only when necessary; but then it seems that I
>>> lose the possibility of using scim to input characters in the shell.
>>>
>>> I don't know if it's clear...
>
>
>
> Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't know anything about scim, or what terminal you're using, so I'm
>> guessing that it's a Gnome Terminal based on the fact that you've been
>> talking about scim with Gtk apps. I would imagine - and may be wrong - that
>> the terminal uses the environment variable to set its input method on start
>> up, so in order to have the ability to use those characters in the terminal,
>> you would need to set those variables in the parent process. One way of doing
>> that is to put them in your .xsessionrc (I said .xsession earlier, but I
>> believe that was wrong). This would, as you say, be equivalent for that user
>> to putting them in /etc/profile, so every Gtk application would use scim.
>>
>> How are you starting your terminal? If you're using a menu entry, you could
>> create a duplicate entry, then edit the command from
>> '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal' - or whatever it is - to 'XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal' and the
>> environment variables would apply to that terminal alone, allowing you to use
>> Chinese characters there without using scim everywhere. You could keep using
>> the old menu entry when you don't need to write in Chinese. Is that more like
>> what you want? (I hope that works. It should do if I've understood the
>> situation.)
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> I start the terminal by left-clicking on the small icon on the desktop panel.
> I tried to do what you suggest: I right clicked on the small terminal icon,
> then in Properties I edited the command from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal to:
>
> 'XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal'
>
> , but when I left click to launch the terminal I get an error message:
>
> Details: Failed to execute child process "XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal" (No such file or
> directory)
>
What about if you use 'env XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal'?
Nye
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