On Saturday 05 July 2008 05:18:25 H.S. wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > IMPORTANT: scim by default works only in an en_US.UTF-8 locale! > ^^^^^^^ > From my experience, it should be a UTF-8 locale, not necessarily en_US. Yes - but it is set to en-US by default and I couldn't find any documentation for scim, even on the scim website.
Lisi > And it should be specified in ~/.scim/global. I have: > $> cat ~/.scim/global > /DefaultKeyboardLayout = kconfig > /DisabledIMEngineFactories = > /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_CA.utf8,en_US.UTF-8,fr_FR.UTF-8 > > And set a few variables in /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim. I modified the > following in mine: > #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim > GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" > #QT_IM_MODULE=xim > QT_IM_MODULE="scim" > > And then start scim. I think that should do the trick. > > > Doh! > > > > Now, if I had been able to find any HOW-TOs on scim, I should no doubt > > have > > This might be helpful: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InputMethods/SCIM/Setup > > > found out a long time ago that that was the problem. Or if I had had teh > > courage to ask again on this list... > > > > Any volunteers to write some scim documentation? > > > > Meanwhile I am a happy user of uim in my en_GB.UTF-8 locale. > > > > My granddaughter, however, for whom I am doing this, is not impressed > > that it is via the mouse and not via the keyboard. :-( I should have > > thought that one mouse click was far faster than typing "c h i" or "z u" > > etc. > > In scim, to toggle between two inputs one just has to do CTRL+SPACE > combination (other combination can be configured). Much faster than > moving to the mouse, clicking and coming back to the keyboard for typing. > :) > > My 2 cents. > > Regards. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
