Scim does not work with openoffice

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 25 January 2009 15:56:20 Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> But, all I want is to use scim within openoffice writer: it's for my
>> sister, she speaks Chinese and
>> needs writing chinese characters.
>>
>> With gedit, she simply does:
>>
>>  $ GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" gedit
>>
>> , but this does not work with openoffice.  Can you suggest how to
>> achieve it?
>> She needs word processor features. 


Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:

> I have always had problems with OpenOffice.  [...]  But the solution was to
> use another Word Processor, e.g. KWord.  I am sure there are others that
> would work fine.  You say that it works in Gedit.
>
> I did at one point find that only K* applications worked (she uses KDE), but 
> as she is quite happy with KMail and KWord it wasn't a problem for her.
>
> [...]
>
> Kword (KOffice if you want the whole suite) on the other hand is easy both to 
> install and to use.  When she and her computer are here, I can also look and 
> see whether it works in Abiword, if that would be a help.


Unfortunately, I installed kword and scim doesn't work either with it: when I
do C-space, the scim toolbar does not appear.

Please let me know if you catch some more information about how you
granddaughter does.

Bye
Rodolfo