Re: Japanese input

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

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 02:36:55PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
> I installed Debian a few weeks back in Japanese.
> 
> This installed Canna (which correctly starts up as a service on boot).
> Also, Kinput (kinput2-canna-wnn) and Freewnn-jserver (not sure what this
> does) were installed.
> 
> Entering the following 2 commands on the command line (inside X) gets
> kinput2 up and running, and any programs ran from this terminal will now
> accept Japanese input (if they're capable of such).
> $ pidof kinput2 >/dev/null || kinput2 &
> $ export XMODIFIERS=@im=kinput2
> 
> But I'd like to have these commands executed somewhere so Japanese input
> is available in X when I log in.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

Put those lines in ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (never remember which one), 
and try. 

Just for the record, I use these lines when I need to launch an application
accepting Japanese input:

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

Regards,

						Victor