Re: Re: How to input Japanese?

["Craig Hagerman" <craighagerman@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately from that readme it still isn't
clear how to actual choose a different input method. But you pointed
me in the right direction - I found a wiki about scim
(http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation) which in turn lead me to
finding out about scim-setup. I ran this utility from the command
line. It gives a gui setup tool for scim. It seems that the answer to
my basic question is that Command-Space will switch between inputs
(although you can set individual hot keys).

Thanks for your assistance, Li.

Craig


On 7/8/06, LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/8/06, Craig Hagerman <craighagerman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > And then...?
> > I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are
> > now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input
> > Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch between English
> > and kana (such as alt-space or something)?
> >
>
> cut from /usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian.gz
>
> --------------
> Autostart SCIM
> --------------
>
> It's quite inconvenient to set environment variables and manually start SCIM
> each time you login, so you want to start SCIM automatically when your X
> session starts.  This is not hard, you just need to put the commands of
> setting variables and start SCIM into a configuration file X reads when it
> starts.  For example, the following lines in ~/.gnomerc should work if you
> want to start SCIM automatically with GNOME:
>     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>     export LANG
>     XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
>     export XMODIFIERS
>     GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"
>     export GTK_IM_MODULE
>     scim -d
> Change the en_US.UTF-8 to your preferred locale, and change GTK_IM_MODULE to
> "scim" if you want to use GTK IM mode instead of XIM mode.
>
> The hard part is to figure out which configuration file to put these in.  One
> choice is to put it in ~/.xsession, and add your X session command at the end
> of the file (such as "exec gnome-session" or "exec startkde").  But this way
> you always need to modify this file to change X session, and the feature of
> choosing session in GDM/KDM will not work anymore.
>
> There are other packages to help these configuration easier, see the next
> section.
>
>
>
> --
> LI Daobing