The following needs to be added to "%post -n iiimf-gtk"

GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` gconftool-2
--makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-im-switcher.schemas >
/dev/null

HOME=/root is also necessary because of avoiding the permission issue
when the package is installing by such as sudo. if HOME sets non-root
home directory, people won't access his/her ~/.gconf after that.

I have the gnome-im-switcher working without setting up the 
environment for GCONF in both fc-1 and fc-2.  
 
 

Lawrence it crashes for me reproducibly whenever I press
Button-1 on the applet without having installed the gconf
schema: so I think this really needs to be added.

im-sdk-11.4-11

Thanks.

Please forgive me for bringing this up again. I've searched for a long
time for solution but to no avail... I have the same error, i.e.,
gnome-im-switcher-applet outputs the error message mentioned above and
no applet appears in my panel. May I know how do I add
GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE to "%post -n iiimf-gtk" please? THanks in advance.

Hong-I Ng, what is the version and release of iiimf you're using?

I am using Fedora Core 2 stable release and have the same problem as
the original bug reporter except that the line number in the error
output has changed:


(gnome-im-switcher-applet:6821): GConf-CRITICAL **: file
gconf-client.c: line 547 (gconf_client_add_dir): assertion
`gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed


I have tried the solutions in "Additional Comments" #1, #2, and #5 but
they have not fixed the problem.

I have the following IIIMF related packages installed:
iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-client-lib-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-server-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-csconv-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-le-unit-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-46.1.svn1587
iiimf-gtk-11.4-46.1.svn1587

I have the following GNOME related packages installed:
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.0.0-4.1
gnome-python2-2.0.0-4.1
openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-34
gnome-pilot-2.0.10-6.1
libgnomeprint22-2.6.0-1
gnome-themes-2.6.0-2
gnome-utils-2.6.0-2
gnome-applets-2.6.2.1-1
gnome-mime-data-2.4.1-4
gnome-keyring-0.2.0-1
libgnomecanvas-2.6.0-1
libgnomeui-2.6.0-3
gnome-spell-1.0.5-4.1
gnome-panel-2.6.0-9
libgnomeprintui22-2.6.0-1
gnome-icon-theme-1.2.0-1
gnome-vfs2-smb-2.6.0-8
gnome-audio-1.4.0-7
gnome-mag-0.10.10-2
libgail-gnome-1.0.2-3.1
gnome-system-monitor-2.6.0-3
gnome-vfs-extras-0.2.0-8.1
gnome-media-2.6.0-1
libgnome-2.6.0-3
gnome-session-2.6.0-4
gnome-vfs2-2.6.0-8
gnome-python2-bonobo-2.0.0-4.1
gnome-python2-canvas-2.0.0-4.1
libgnomecups-0.1.6-7
gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1
up2date-gnome-4.3.19-1
gnome-user-docs-2.6.0.1-2
gnome-terminal-2.6.0-2
gnome-vfs-1.0.5-18

Thanks in advance.

I just tried again on a FC2 box with iiimf-gtk-11.4-46.1.svn1587.

Does the applet not appear for you when you start a gtk2
application (eg gnome-terminal or gedit say) using iiim?

Yes, the applet does not appear even when running gedit and
gnome-terminal. 

I had recently reinstalled a fresh copy of FC2 and am noticing that
many of the international fonts, such as the Chinese Traditional font,
do not appear in the gnome-terminal. I suppose that I had forgotten to
install these font packages during the reinstallation. 

Could this be what is affecting the gnome-im-switcher-applet?

Possibly.

Could you give focus to the gnome panel and try to tab through
the applets to see if there is one that is invisible?

The only invisible applet that I am able to give focus to is the
"Window List" applet. This happens both before and after adding the
gnome-im-switcher-applet to the GNOME panel. 

Also, when I add the switcher-applet to the GNOME panel, the focus
indicator in the panel disappears momentarily and returns to the
widget that had focus before the adding. From this, it seems that the
switcher-applet succeeded in attatching itself to the panel before it
crashed.

In the mean time, is there some way to change the IM language in the
terminal, say, via the 'gconftool-2' program?

Thanks.

Allright, the applet magically appears in my primary Panel when I:
(1) log out of GNOME, 
(2) log into GNOME, and then 
(3) run the following command in a terminal:

LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit

However, some unwanted behavior still persists:
(a) After step (2), 
  trying to add the applet to a Panel does not work. 

(b) After step (3), 
  without closing 'gedit',
  removing the applet and then 
  adding it to the Panel does not work.

(c) After step (3), 
  closing 'gedit', 
  removing the applet, and then 
  adding it to the Panel does not work.

After step (b) XOR (c), 
  running step (3) does not make the applet appear.

Suraj, er, what locale are you using for your gnome session?

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

iiimf is off by default for non-Asian locale...

What you want to do put

XIM=htt

in your ~/.i18n or /etc/sysconfig/i18n file.

After implementing your solution, the applet now appears automatically
upon GNOME login. :-)

However, some problems still persist:

  After logging in, if I remove the applet from the Panel and try to
add it again, the applet crashes just as before.

  Whenever I choose a non "English" menu item from the applet's menu,
the applet's text does not change to reflect my selection. For
example, when I select the "Hindi" menu item, the applet still
displays "English".

Whoops, my mistake. Please disregard the second problem reported in my
previous post #19.

Ok if you find other problems please file them in separate
bug reports.  BTW Gimlet is going to see a lot of improvements
in FC3. :)