You should better use SCIM instead of IIM. It's much more flexible and intelligent, has a whole load of different languages and layouts (including phonetic) and can be easily extend it with your own. See http://www.scim-im.org/ and http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/scim/index.php?title=Main_Page for details.
Just uninstall SUNWiiimf* and install SUNWscim, SUNWscim-m17n (I had to uninstall: SUNWiiimf SUNWiiimf-ja-anthy SUNWiiimf-ko-hangul SUNWiiimf-th-thaile SUNWiiimf-zhCN-cle-core SUNWiiimf-zhCN-cle-sunpinyin SUNWiiimf-zhTW-twle-chewing SUNWiiimf-zhTW-twle-core ) In order to start SCIM, use scim -d. However when it's put in startup, it doesn't load properly (when loaded too early) starting from build snv_121. You should either start it manually after the login, or put in startup some workaround script which makes "sleep 20; scim -d" for example. Note, that scim works only in windows managers (should work in Gnome and KDE). In pure console mode it is irrelevant and you need to play around with HAL settings to set up layouts and etc. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
