input method problem

[bronco]

Originally Posted by redhat71

http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/document...08a6a1fd4cdc47

http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/document...08a6a1fd4cdc47

do as first link, i got this:
[root@localhost ~]# im-switch -s scim
No alternatives defined for language en_GB
[root@localhost ~]#

[seshomaru samma]

did you try the second option?

If you are not able to install "system-switch-im", the equivalent operation is:

mkdir -p ~/.xinput.d
ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default

Replace "default" by your locale without encoding (eg "ja_JP" for Japanese, etc), if you only want to use scim by default for desktop sessions in that language.

[oREDi]

Originally Posted by mtl2002

2. mkdir /home/yourusername/.xinput.d
ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim /home/yourusername/.xinput.d/default

Replace "default" by your locale without encoding (eg "ja_JP" for Japanese, etc), if you only want to use scim by default for desktop sessions in that language.

Dear all I had a problem with these and it took me days to solve, I misinterpreted the Replace "default" by your locale without encoding portion. I had replace default with ja_JP thinking that I need to use Japanese. But because my locale was actually en_US as my language is set to English(US) so my SCIM was not activated when I started GNOME. so if u using English(US) like me your cmd should look like this
ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim /home/yourusername/.xinput.d/en_US

hope it helps