2005-11-15

http://www.scim-im.org/ provides a wide range of input methods, not just chinese. I dropped fcitx because i didn't know where to put its directives(see log_05.tex) for gdm. Now i know it's /etc/X11/Xsession.d/.

I searched google by ubuntu chinese input and got this link, http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/scim/.

And did following:

• install package scim and its dependent packages
• create file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/74custom-scim_startup and put following into it:: export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM" export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d" export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"

Problems:

• (gnome)terminal doesn't work. I could see the chinese character flashing when i was pressing the keyword. But when i wanted to confirm it by pressing space, it disappeared.
• can't input chinese in kde programs under gnome. This is expected from the link above. Currently, i don't need to input chinese in kile or scribus.

2006-06-12

For Ubuntu 6.06, go to '/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/', and 'ln -s scim-pinyin en_US'

2006-11-15

Now for Ubuntu 6.10(edgy), go to '/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/', and 'ln -s scim en_US'. 'scim-pinyin' freezes input in terminal and anjuta.

2008-01-05 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM/Chinese

didn't work though.