SCIM on Fedora 5

HelplessNewbie · 04-01-2006, 05:20 PM

I am trying to get SCIM to work on Fedora 5. I have it installed and I can access the configuration under System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> SCIM Input Method Setup. I have the toggle shortcut set to Ctrl + Space, which is the default, but I can't seem to get anything to respond to my input. When I open up a text editor and press Ctrl + Space, it doesn't seem to change my input settings. I have a feeling I missed a step in my setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

samuraiKidz · 04-22-2006, 10:21 AM

-double post- sorry

samuraiKidz · 04-23-2006, 04:48 AM

can anyone help on this? I too have the same problem.

SCIM can't seem to start.

glagoo · 04-23-2006, 05:54 AM

Here is my method with Mandriva 2006.

Urpmi method is to be replaced with a up2date or equivalent rpm tool

Good Luck.

GlaGoo

# as root, in a terminal, add rpms

urpmi scim-tables locales-zh

# as a regular user, in a terminal

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8

scim -d

kwrite

daihard · 04-23-2006, 06:07 AM

I am using SCIM with Fedora Core 5. The method glagoo described should work fine, though you should not have to define LANG or LC_ALL.

The simplest way to get SCIM to work with FC5 is to do the following:

Code:

$ mkdir ~/.xinput.d
$ cd ~/.xinput.d
$ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim default

... and restart GNOME (or KDE). This creates the link called "default" under your home directory, which is picked up by FC5 as it starts X window.

HTH,
Dai

samuraiKidz · 04-26-2006, 02:03 PM

daihard's solution works perfectly

Thanks a million