Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
>> >>>>> I added the following lines to /etc/profile:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
>> >>>>> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
>> >>>>> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> $ source script
>>
>> has the same effect than running those three commands from command line.
>> Instead, putting them in /etc/profile is more powerful, it gets more
>> effects. It seems there's no alternative to that?
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> writes:
> The place I got that from said that you could put them in a user's own
> profile file if you wanted them to be for one user only. I haven't tested
> that, and I can't remember the details.
>
> I'm not clear why you object to putting it in /etc/profiles? I shan't be
> using it myself very often - but I just wanted it to work, and by the
> simplest (for me) method.
Aneurin Price <aneurin.price@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not sure what you mean by 'more effects'. You can get the effect of
> /etc/profile on a per user basis by adding commands to ~/.bash_profile (for
> bash shells), ~/.profile (for most shells), ~/.xsession for X sessions - I
> *think* this should be read by xdm/kdm/gdm and therefore work with any
> desktop environment, but I'm not exactly sure how it's handled. The one
> thing you can't do (so far as I know) is set variables for your whole session
> *after* logging in.
We're talking about details, now the problem of scim working with oowriter
seems to be solved.
Anyway: putting those `export' commands in /etc/profile has the advantage that
I can put chinese characters also in the command line, with `C-space'. The
disadvantage is that scim is automatically started every time I start the
Terminal application, even if I don't want to use scim. The Terminal is slowed
down when starting.
On the other hand, running those three commands from command line has the
advantage that I start scim only when necessary; but then it seems that I lose
the possibility of using scim to input characters in the shell.
I don't know if it's clear...
Bye
Rodolfo
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