Re: Scim does not work with openoffice

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

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 XMODIFIERS=@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