Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 207871
scim-anthy disabled in non-Japanese environment (no toggle)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:44 EST
Description of problem: When scim-anthy is installed, the Japanese input is only available when Japanese is the default language, but it should be available at all times. Many users may need to input Japanese even though they are working from another language. (Pretty sure this affects other input systems using scim, but I didn't test them.) My current hypothesis is that the scim environment information is being installed at a lower level than it should be. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NA How reproducible: Seems to be absolutely consistent, and the workaround shown below is alos firmly and consistently linked to the specific environment where it is invoked. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install scim-anthy 2. Hit activation hotkey (eiher the zenkaku/hankaku key or <Ctrl>-<space> 3. Nothing happens in English environment, Anthy toggles on in Japanese env. Actual results: In English environment, nothing happens Expected results: Japanese input mode should become active (or inactive--it's a toggle). Additional info: On Saturday I briefly discussed this problem with a distro-free Linux guru, and he quickly gave me the following generic fix. I have confirmed that using the third command is sufficient, at least to activate gedit with Japanese input capability from a shell where that command has been invoked. However, I'm such a newbie to Fedora that I don't know how to apply it in a safe way. (I called the fix 'generic' because it is also applicable to solving what seems to be the same problem under Ubuntu.) LANG='ja_JP.UTF-8' scim -d export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
Please make a symlink under ~/.xinput.d like: $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default and restart your desktop. it makes scim default for all languages. FYI on FC6, we will provides a GUI tool to configure the IM for desktop, so-called im-chooser. anyway, this behavior is not a bug. we didn't make scim running by default was intentional.
Sounds like a good solution. However, when I tried it, the response was: $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default ln: creating symbolic link `/home/shanen/.xinput.d/default' to `/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim': No such file or directory I checked that the scim file exists in the specified location, and for grins I even used su and tried it as root. I understand that you did this intentionally, but that seems odd. Why would someone install scim unless they had the intention of using it? However, if I actually understand what the recommended solution is supposed to do, it also seems to be unsuccessful. I think the recommendation is to make sure that scim is running, but just having scim running does not seem to be sufficient. At least is is not working in my tests. It still seems to require the GTK environment setting.
I don't see why ln failed. or did you install scim from tarball? FWIW this is a FC specific way. if you tried it on non-FC box or installed scim without the package, then it fails. please provide the package version of scim. try this: $ rpm -qa scim
I mean rpm -q scim.
I installed scim-anthy using yum. If I remember correctly, I used the command "yum install scim-anthy" to do it. However, I'm pretty sure the problem was that the .xinit.d subdirectory did not exist. I just created that directory with "mkdir .xinit.d", and then the recommended workaround command worked. I can't restart X11 just now, but I will later, and if I don't post again, you may take it as confirmation of success.