help with skim

[nigel barker <tech@hiroshima-is.ac.jp>]

Can anyone help me get Japanese input working on English workstations 
and ltspservers?

I have installed the following plus dependencies:
japanese
scim
anthy
scim-anthy
skim

and locale ja_JP.UTF8

then followed the instructions about setting up environment variables at:

http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/documentation/installation_and 
_configuration/all/system_configuration

but nothing happens.
The skim menu is empty when I click the tray icon.

I am a bit surprised how involved this is. Last year when I used Gnome 
on Skolelinux 2, it was simply a matter of installing a panel applet.


(I have attacked the problem from the opposite side, trying to convert a 
Japanese workstation install into English locale, but OOo (and possibly 
other GTK apps) stubbornly remain in Japanese, even after a lot of 
fiddling and posting on LQ, etc. Now its too late anyway - I have many 
English workstations)

cheers

nigel