On 2016-03-20 11:17:25, Peter Kane <pwk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I use jserver/kinput2 because it works with cwm and I can run it on a legacy > i386 system and connect over ssh from an amd64 machine (I was hoping the new > vmd development work would help there, but i386 support seems a way off). The > new UTF-8 desktop settings in -current work OK for me to display UTF-8 fonts, > it is just the occasional inputting of kanji that I need something for. If > someone can show how to use uim/anthy with cwm in a non-root manner I would > be grateful. > > uim does have appeal because it supports a wide range of languages and I > would like something for Chinese, too. >
It's been a long time since I installed and configured uim/anthy (it Just Works), so I may not remember all the steps it took, but it's fairly straightforward. These are the installed ports I have: anthy-9100hp1 japanese input method uim-1.8.6p1 multilingual input method library uim-gtk-1.8.6p1 uim for GTK+2 uim-gtk3-1.8.6p2 uim for GTK+3 uim-kde-1.8.6p1 uim for KDE3 uim-qt4-1.8.6p1 uim for QT4 uim-tomoe-gtk-0.6.0 japanese handwriting In .xinitrc (non-relevant lines omitted): [...] export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim" export QT_IM_MODULE="uim" env LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 uim-xim & [...] exec env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" /usr/X11R6/bin/cwm Quite frankly, I can't remember why I put the "env LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and 'env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"' lines in there. I think at one point they mattered, but with the base system having/being switched to UTF-8 by default, they may no longer be necessary. After that, simply typing "startx" will bring up CWM with a working IME. Running /usr/local/bin/uim-pref-gtk will bring up a GUI you can use to configure UIM. There are probably *way* more options here than you'll need. Configuring the keyboard shortcut you want to use to switch input methods is probably the only one you'll really need at first. I have mine set up to toggle between an IPA keyboard (for inputting linguistics-related symbols), a regular keyboard, and the anthy IME. You can also run one of: uim-toolbar-gtk uim-toolbar-gtk3 uim-toolbar-qt4 uim-toolbar-gtk-systray uim-toolbar-gtk3-systray If you want a GUI-toolbar or systray application to run that lets you click on buttons to toggle/switch between IMEs. Though personally, I find them to be superfluous, especially in a minimalist windowmanager like CWM. Please let me know if you're successful in setting up UIM/anthy with this information; I can always try to offer better advice :) -- Bryan