Ming Hua wrote: > > If it still looks like a problem with socket, you can try changing the > above "scim -d" command to "scim -f x11 --no-socket -d" and see if it > helps anything. I still have softwares hanging, but the kanji convertion does work. But kana to kanji convertion can takes up to several minutes (does not take CPU, though), so this is still pretty unusable :) > > To put it short: SCIM is not a better XIM, it's a layer above XIM and > uses XIM. It is also able to not use XIM and use GTK IM instead, and > GTK IM is supposed to be a "better" XIM. > > I have written some more detailed doc in /usr/share/doc/scim/README.GTK, > so if you are interested you can read it. You may also want to read > other README docs in that directory. Note it's written for Debian, > though, so some information may not apply to Ubuntu. Thanks for the clarification. All this stuff seemed pretty complicated to me first when I started using non western input :) > > Yeah, installing scim without root privilege is a quite tricky thing. > The main problem is the GTK IM module, and some one has sent a patch to > the upstream [1], you may want to have a look. It modifies configure.ac > though, so you need to regenerate all the autotools stuff if you want to > apply it. > > 1. http://www.nabble.com/Changing-gtk2-im-module-install-dir- > tf3675313s16577.html > Ok, the patch applied, with some hunk. I could compile and install scim (1.4.6) with debug symbols, and the problem of launching applications using scim above xim seems to disappear (no hanging for now).
But I don't know how to install anthy on it so that I can try Japanese input (I installed scim-anthy, but I guess this is not enought to make scim look for plugins...) David -- scim-anthy does not work and make any application which uses it hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107391 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
