Re: getting scim to work on KDE

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Wei Chen wrote:

>> Well, something doesn't seem to be right with my setup. Scim works in
>> Icedove, iceweasel and gaim. But it doesn't work in kate or konsole.
>> What am I missing?
>>
> 
> I am not sure whether it is a problem of using immodule. You may try to
> use the traditional XIM method by changing the /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim
> file back.
> 
> I believe that XIM should work with all common X applications. Regardless
> whether they are qt or gtk based. I never used immodule input methods so
> cannot comment them too much.
> 
> HTH
> 

I tried with xcim:
$> cat .xinput.d/en_CA
#
# Use "X input Method" for all applications
#
# Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated
# not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and QT appplication.
#
# If a user wish to use, GTK Input Method, (s)he can right-click input
# area and select "Input Methods" and change from "X input Method" to
# "SCIM Input Method".
#

XIM=SCIM
XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim
XIM_ARGS="-d"
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
#GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
QT_IM_MODULE=xim
#QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
DEPENDS="scim,scim-anthy|scim-canna|scim-chewing|scim-pinyin|scim-hangle|scim-prime|scim-skk|scim-tables-additional|scim-m17n|scim-uim|scim-tables-ja|scim-tables-ko|scim-tables-zh"

With xim, it doesn't work at all. I just get the scim keyboard in the
panel but not its toolbar and neither can I change the input.

Using scim, however, it works except in KDE applications.

Here are the packages I have related to scim:
$> dpkg -l *scim* *m17n* | grep ^i | gawk '{print $2}'
libm17n-0
libscim8c2a
m17n-contrib
m17n-db
scim
scim-bridge
scim-bridge-agent
scim-bridge-client-gtk
scim-bridge-client-qt
scim-gtk2-immodule
scim-m17n
scim-modules-socket


Any other suggestions?

thanks,
->HS