On Tuesday 03 February 2009 22:26:31 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > would you > > > like me to tell you what I did, and what works and what doesn't work now > > on my desktop? > > Please do. Please if you can report all the settings you did and the > packages you had to install.
Note that I was attempting to install Japanese, not Chinese. Some of what I did was specific to Japanese and you would need to change those to Chinese if you decided to try the same method. Also possibly relevant, I am running KDE 3.5.10 on Debian Lenny. I seem to remember that you are using Gnome. This is what I did: # aptitude install anthy anthy-el libanthy0 scim-anthy kasumi scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-bridge-client-qt scim-bridge-client-qt4 scim-m17n scim-qtimm scim-tables-additional scim-tables-ja libskim0 skim All on one line - but my KMail setting won't allow it. The things I know to be specific to Japanese are anthy, kasumi and scim-tables-ja. I know that there is a scim-tables-zh, but I am afraid that I do not know the Chinese equivalents of the others. I had the following error message: dpkg: libgd2-noxpm: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: libgraphviz4 depends on libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg) | libgd2-xpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg); however: Package libgd2-noxpm is to be removed. Package libgd2-xpm is not installed. (Reading database ... 137853 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libgd2-noxpm so I installed libgd2-xpm. I added the following lines to /etc/profile: export xmodifie...@im=scim export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim scim -f socket -c socket -d I enabled system tray on my panel so that the icon which had by now appeared would be visible, right-clicked on it, which brought up a list including "configure", and clicked on configure. I then made the following alterations to the default: Front end -> general scim -> toggle on/off -> I deleted everything except control+space. I also looked at the keyboard layout, but it was already correctly set to English (UK), so I left well alone. Then in IMEngines -> global settings I unticked (unchecked) everything except Japanese. I had to do this twice, because I failed to notice the elevator at the side of the window and only unticked those I could already see. :-( Then I rebooted. I can now use control+space to toggle between English and Japanese in all K* programs, OpenOffice.org and Iceweasel (Firefox). I have also tried in Abiword. It obviously works, but the input is less straightforward, so I gave up. I hope that I have not left anything out! If I have not made anything clear enough, or if you hit any problems that I may have hit and needed to solve, feel free to ask. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org