[newbie] Re: xcin not working.
I have installed Mandrake 8.0 a few weeks ago but I haven't been able to
configure it the way I need to yet. I have tried to get help from a local
linux list about installing chinese functinalities, but my problem is not
solved. I hope someone here will be able to help me. :-)
Basically, I need to be able to input different languages (inc. french,
german... but most importantly chinese which requires a special software).
I would use chinese in kmail, abiword and many other common softwares.
Abiword won't even display the chinese in existing .doc files.
in the message below.
CLE stands for Chinese Linux Extension, of which xcin is a part, if I
understand well.
Linuxer is a local linux monthly magazine.
Thanks,
:-)
Anguo
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ok, it's been a while I have been trying to install chinese input without
success. Further help will be appreciated.
Here's the situation:
from Mandrake 8.0 CDs in the June Linuxer issue, I properly installed
everything that could be installed.
In the KDE Control Center, I set the personalization country and language
to Taiwan. Big5.
Now, all the menus are more or less displayed in chinese and can read my mail
in chinese (even though is some places, especially in Kmail, I have funny
symbols instead of Chinese... but I can cope with that for now).
The problem is that I can not start xcin. Here is the error message I get:
$ xcin
XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version xcin 2.5.2.3.
(module ver: 2831, syscin ver: 2210).
(use -h option for help)
xcin: locale en_US encoding iso-8859-1
xcin: error: /etc/chinese/xcin/xcinrc:
locale section en_US: DEFAULT_IM: value not specified.
I followed the advice I was given:
If you want everything to be in Chinese, you can just
copy /etc/sysconfig/i18n to $HOME/.i18n
Edit .i18n, changing en and en_US everywhere to zh_TW.Big5.
You can set up multiple users, one with English configuration and
one with Chinese.
here is the file as I modified it:
$home/.i18n
---
SYSFONT=lat0-sun16
LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
LC_MONETARY=zh_TW.Big5
LANGUAGE=zh_TW.Big5
LC_TIME=zh_TW.Big5
LC_NUMERIC=zh_TW.Big5
LC_COLLATE=zh_TW.Big5
LC_MESSAGES=zh_TW.Big5
LANG=zh_TW.Big5
SYSFONTACM=iso15
It didn't help. To start with the messages in the terminal are illigible.
It's neither english nor chinese. i guess it because of the SYSFONTACM which
is not set properly?
When I start xcin, I have a similar error message (only after copy/paste into
this email, could I read what the message said):
$ xcin
XCIN (¤¤¤å XIM ¿é¤Jªkµ{¦¡) ª©¥» xcin 2.5.2.3¡C
(¼Ò²Õª©¥»: 2831, syscin ª©¥»: 2210)
(¨Ï¥Î -h ¿ï¶µÅã¥Ü¨Ï¥Î»¡©ú)
xcin: °Ï°ì¤Æ³]©w zh_TW.Big5 ¤º½X big5
xcin: ¿ù»~: IMOpenIM(): XIM ¦WºÙ xcin ¶Ç¿é°ð X/ ¶}±Ò¿ù»~¡C
I uninstall the xcin 2.5 in Mandrake and then install the xcin in CLE 1.0.
It works! I use the same method to solve the Abiword problem. Please try it.
I hope it will be helpful for you.
I installed Mandrake 8.0 from the 2 cds included in Linuxer. June.
I also have the 2 cds CLE1.0 included in Linuxer, May.
I did:
rpm -i *CLE*
from the second CLE1.0 cd. (there were only virtual links in CD1)
What I don't understand is that: are there different softwares to input
chinese (xcin -installed by default with mandrake- being one and CLE being
another one)???
If so, I must have CLE somewhere installed but I couldn't figure out how to
start it.
Or are both the same thing, just a different version?
Am I supposed to overwrite (upgrade) the one with the other?
Yet, in this case, I guess that the one I have installed is the latest
because it came from the latest published cd. It seems that I have the
2.5.2.3 version of xcin installed.
It is important that I can input chinese using bopomofo (I am still
learning).
Thank you for your help,
an-guo
[newbie] Re: installing the 2nd Disk - SWAP sizw - Software manager -
On Monday 18 June 2001 17:14, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Actually, I would like to be able to install the 2nd disk for it includes some important stuff that I need. (I have 30G drive) However during the installation process, LM8.0 didn't ask me to insert the 2nd cd. I saw that it is full of rpm's and I am in the process of learning how to use rpm, but is there an easy way to install most if not all of the 2nd disk? That's odd... You should've been asked during the installation if you had the second CD on hand. Thank you Dhanapalan for your help. Actually it was a hardware problem. Since I was low on resources, Mandrake choose not to install the 2nd cd. during the last couple of days, I have been busy upgrading my hardware: new mobo, more ram... and Mandrake judged it to be sufficient ;-) so the install went ok, including cd2. With swap, the law of diminishing returns really kicks in as your approach 256MB. Ideally, you should be able to load everthing in main memory, since a hard drive is much slower than RAM. If you're actually using as much as 256MB swap, your system will be so slow it'd be unusable. Any more than 256MB of swap is simply a waste of space. Thanks, I use the opportunity that I had to reinstal to resize my swap. The Software Manager doesn't work. If I launch it, it freezes whilst loading the first screen. Then, the only way to get out is to kill the application. Same as above. Hardware was not good enough. Since upgrading, I no longer have any problem. broken and you need a reinstall, you can get the package rpmdrake from rpmfind.net. This link is always useful. Thanks. blessings, an-guo
[newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
no, it is not a rant: I would appreciate help on this one. I newly installed Mandrake 8.0 on a new machine which does not include windows (yet), so this time one cannot blame microsoft (damn!). Linux, or maybe more precisely xwindows/KDE has crashed on me several times already and that puzzled me. I had to make a hard shut down which of course I'd like to avoid (I wouldn't want to have to reinstall everything again). the situation is like this: I run one application when I suddenly notice that in the background the whole desktop disappears, meaning the desktop icons, the control panes and even the window's frame (with the resize buttons) which I guess is controled by KDE/xwindows. I can then carry on using the application I was using but of course can no longer resize, move, minimize the window. I can quit the application using the pull down menu. If I do, I can then close other windows/ applications that were open in the background. The application that were running but whose windows were minimized are of course no longer accessible. Once I close everything, I am left with a clear background with absolutely nothing on it. There is no key stroke that I found that could bring up any dialog box or at least allow me to shut down properly. crt+alt+dek doesn't help either. At that point the only solution is to make a hard shut down. On startup the kernel of course complains that devices were not properly unmounted. I get a series of messages saying things like: i-blocks is 64, should be 8. FIXED. So I guess it's a problem with the windows environement. I thought linux was more stable than windows. I now have three questions: 1- how do I manage to shut down properly, should that happen again? 2- what can I do to help diagnostic what is the source of the problem? 3- and of course, how can I fix the problem? It happened several times already and each time I was running KMail and Netscape at least. (only that plus a small game last time it happened). I guess netscape could be involved in the problem (I didn't open it so that I could write this email). It was already pretty shitty under windows, made it crashed. I thought such a thing couldn't happen under Linux. Still, I may be wrong about netscape because the funny thing is that I could carry on using it after the desktop crashed. What do I do now? Is someone able to help me?
Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake as unstable as Windows98??
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:41, you wrote: Dear Sir, For killing the Window use ctrl+alt+backspace keys. For shutting down, ctrl+alt+delete will work wonderfully if you have not Oh! Thank you for that! I am still looking for a howto with all those tips that any complete beginner should know. I just tried that and it worked fine. I'll try again if my window freezes up again. made the installation as high security. Otherwise it will ask for root login before shutting down. I have loaded MKL 7.2 and 8.0 and found no problems. But Redhat linux 7.1 gives a lot of problems especially with SCSI adapters. I have looked on the KDE web site (I should have done that first, sorry to bother you first) and it is possible that it is a kde bug though I am not sure. http://bugs.kde.org/db/20/20748.htm : this bug seems a little bit similar ??? If it happens again, I'll use gnome instead and see if it is better. Thanks. An-Guo
