Salut Charles :) Thank you very much for your kind reply!I tried to make it work using your instructions - unfortunately without result... In the meanwhile I tried everything I did before again and - I don't have any idea why - found the following working for me this time:
scim -dXMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" LANG=ja_JP.utf8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8 LANGUAGE=ja_JP.utf8 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/swriter
As far as I remember I tried the same thing yesterday about 10 times - without result. But for some reason (probably thanks to all those things I installed following all kind of howtos) it is working now...
I wrote a little script to make things easyer: mkdir -p ~/bin cat > ~/bin/joowriter <<'FIN' #!/usr/bin/env bash # setting Japanese utf8 locale locale=ja_JP.utf8 export LANG=$locale export LANGUAGE=$locale export LC_CTYPE=$locale # using scim as input method export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" # start scim if not already running if [ -z "$(ps -A | grep -i scim)" ]; then scim -d &> /dev/null & fi # start OpenOffice writer oowriter & # fin. FIN chmod 755 ~/bin/joowriterI hope one way will work for some future users at least - yours or the latter one... Probably chances are not very high though looking at all those different howtos on the net...
Best wishes from Tokyo and have a nice day (in Wako?) also :) Dietrich --- by the way, I didn't try Firefox and Thunderbird for the time being... Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:53:39AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann a écrit :I tried to use OpenOffice with scim and uim but couldn't activate the Japanese input method in OpenOffice. Control-Space didn't work, the context menu wouldn't have any entry for the input method and I was not able to configure another Shortcut when I tried to do so using the scim configuration tool.Dear Dietrich, I had a similar problem with firefox and thunderbird, until one explained me that some crucial environment variables were needed: GTK_IM_MODULE=uim ; export GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE=uim ; export QT_IM_MODULE XMODIFIERS=@im=uim ; export XMODIFIERS Now if you start OpenOffice from the command line within a shell after these environment variables have been exported, and after uim-xim has been started, things should work. The uim-toolbar-gtk-systray may be helpful too. My problem was that I had everything in my .xsession, but I was not aware that my login manager was ignoring this file at startup. I am using Anthy, so I guess that you would have to apt-get install uim-anthy to make the input work in OpenOffice whith the method I am using. Have a nice day,