I just installed 9.04 desktop, updated, instlled anthy, then added a Japanese keyboard.

I might be missing a step or something but pressing Ctl + Spc doesn't do anything.

I got it to work on Linux Mint but haven't yet on just plain Ubuntu.

Posted this question on the Ubuntu forums but just got ignored.

I would appreciate any help.

I don't think anthy alone does anything. It's just a backend. You need to use it through an IME frontend like scim or uim. Do you have one of these installed?

See here for more on international text support on Linux.

oh yeah. Forgot about that. Thanks a bunch!

Ok I have installed scim too, but I can't seem to be able to use it.

I can get the little scim icon to show up at the top of the screen but only by using the terminal. And I can't get it to do anything. The hotkeys don't work.

I looked on another forum and tried this in the terminal but it did nothing:


im-switch -s scim

I know that at times, one has needed a $HOME/.scim file and had to add the hotkey thingie in there.

I have a page on this, though it doesn't really cover using the Gnome gui way of doing it. (Actually, the page is listed, with an incorrect URL, in the scim README, but it's rather dated, and as I don't use the GUI tools, I never really covered them.)

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computer...u/jpninpt.html

You might have to choose something from one of the Gnome preferences menus about input.

Just for fun though, try something like

XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" gnome-terminal

and see if it works.

Truthfully I don't know all that much about how scim works; it runs on my systems without any trouble. The only thing I can say is to follow the instructions in the link I gave you, particularly in setting up the environmental variables (you can use the "env" command to confirm that the settings are what you wan them to be).