2011/2/20 Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com> > Hi Henri, *, > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Same problem, of course, when using OOo ; I'm using the latest > > (Swedish) 3.3 version in both cases. SCIM works fine with other > applications > > on Ubuntu, like the gedit text editor or Gmail's compose. > > As OOo/LO doesn't support GTK's input method switching on the fly (you > cannot choose between the different input methods by opening the > context-menu), you need to enable scim before launching OOo/LO - > either by setting it as your global default (i.e. default not GTK > input method, but scim), or by setting > GTK_IM_MODULE=scim just for OOo/LO > > Either add it to the soffice startup script, or launch it manually > from the commandline. > > (GTK_IM_MODULE=scim soffice) > > Note that it has to be completely shut down, otherwise it will just > reuse an existing session and not apply the change. > > ciao > Christian >
That was fast, Christian - many thanks ! I chose to launch the start up script from the command line and it worked perfectly - the command opened OOo (3.2) and a test showed that SCIM functioned just as it should. Well and good ! But alas, as always seems to be the case with me, the situation is more complicated. At the moment I have no less than two (2) versions of OOo and one (1) version of LibreOffice installed on my machine - i e, the Ubuntuised version of OOo that came with the 10.10 OS, *viz*, 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.1 and the OOo 3.3 RC (3.3.0-20) and LibreOffice 3.3 (3.3.0-19) packages which I myself installed. Writer in the former is launched via the command «ooffice -writer %F», the two latter packages are launched via «/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice» and «/opt/libreoffice/program/soffice», respectively. Not surprisingly, after performing the command «GTK_IM_MODULE=scim soffice», SCIM now works with the first named, but not with the latter two. My knowledge of Ubuntu hasn't sufficed to permit me to set SCIM as my global default, which I think would be the best solution or, failing that, to insert the «GTK_IM_MODULE=scim» in the soffice startup scripts for both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Can I prevail upon you to further help me by explaining how to perform these operations ?... Henri -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
