On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 05:52:53PM +0900, Bryan Linton wrote: > On 2016-03-21 21:28:17, Peter Kane <pwk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 06:59:18PM +1300, Peter Kane wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for the detailed notes. I'll give it another go shortly. > > > > > > Peter > > > > OK, I take it all back, partly. > > > > At first it wasn't working at all but after a few or more Xorg restarts it > > began to show signs of life. I unloaded a lot of the conversion engines > > that I didn't want and added "set encoding=utf-8" in a vimrc file. However, > > the uim-toolbar-gtk often doesn't launch properly on startup for me so I > > have to wait a while and try again (I would just get a preferences icon). > > The keyboard switching also seemed erratic and laggy. The anthy part runs > > as root. > > > > On the whole it wasn't a great user experience, but jvim isn't really any > > better. Maybe I can refine the settings further to make it better. Thanks > > again. > > > > To be honest, I'm not really sure what advice to offer. For me, > switching between input methods is nigh instantaneous. I also > don't have any anthy processes running according to pgrep or top; > UIM handles connections to it internally. > > Can you post your entire .xinitrc file? Obviously redacting any > information that needs to be. > > Also, can you try the following: > > 1) Launch uim-pref-gtk > 2) Under the first page that opens (Global settings), under > "Advanced settings", does checking/unchecking the "Enable lazy > input method loading for fast startup" have any effect on > anything? > > On my setup, that option is checked and I don't have any problems, > but YMMV. > > -- > Bryan >
I chose to include the following in my .xinitrc: export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim" uim-xim & exec /usr/X11R6/bin/cwm I have streamlined the setup by turning off some things that I had enabled, such as menu-based IM switcher and things seem to be a lot smoother now. However, two problems remain. 1. I still have to wait a while or have several goes at getting the full gtk toolbar to appear. Toggling lazy startup doesn't seem to affect it. Since I can start uim input without it it is just useful visual feedback on where the settings are at. 2. If I'm running in a now default UTF-8 xterm I don't see the correct kana characters when I am in conversion mode. I seem to be getting unrelated half-height characters instead. The final kana/kanji output is correct. Do you know if I can fix this with the default fonts? If I switch to conversion mode in a Firefox html notepad (data:text/html,<html contenteditable>) the kana fonts display during the conversion input as expected. Now that the startup is running better I haven't seen any anthy-related root processes hanging around in top. Peter
