Re: Enabling kinput2-canna

[Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:32:34AM +0800, Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> Aside from the key combinations in vim and emacs, I've never really
> used an input method. But I now have canna and kinput2-canna installed
> and nothing seems to happen.
> 
> Besides the raw installataion of the two packages and their
> dependencies, what else do I need to do (install or configure) to use
> kinput2 in, say, an application like abiword? It seems the
> documentation on enabling the input method either doesn't work
> ("ctrl-space") or is non-existent or in Japanese.
> 

For me, it works to do this:

$ kinput2 -canna -xim -kinput &
$ export LANG=ja_JP; export LC_ALL=ja_JP;export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
$ your_application &

probably the LANG and LC_ALL exports are not relevant. Then you activate
conversion with Shift-Space. 

Regards,
						Victor