HOWTO: Get SKIM working in breezy

[GoldBuggie]

just running scim in the konsole will give you that. It does the exact same thing for me. Running skim doesn't give me anything. So I don't know what is done behind the scenes there.

Running

scim-setup

I see the engines that are used. Do you have a IMEngine->Anthy option? You did install the package anthy( sudo apt-get install anthy )?

When running ps aux | grep scim I get this.

/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager
/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay
/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11

Try running this please.

[kairu0]

I don't have IMEngine -> Anthy although "dpkg -l|grep anthy" returns:

ii  anthy                                 6724-1                             A Japanese input method (backend, dictionary
ii  libanthy0                             6724-1                             Anthy runtime library

"ps ax|grep scim" returns:

8115 pts/1    S+     0:00 scim
 8117 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
 8118 pts/1    S+     0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -c socket -e socket -f x11
 8137 pts/2    R+     0:00 grep scim

[GoldBuggie]

Ok...I tried some things to see how to disable and reenable scim for me.

First I checked

dpkg -l | grep anthy
ii  anthy 6724-1ubuntu1 
ii  libanthy-dev 6724-1ubuntu1  
ii  libanthy0 6724-1ubuntu1
ii  scim-anthy 0.7.1-1ubuntu1

Then a

dpkg -l | grep scim
ii  libscim-dev 1.4.2-0.3ubuntu
ii  libscim8 1.4.2-0.3ubuntu 
ii  scim 1.4.2-0.3ubuntu 
ii  scim-anthy 0.7.1-1ubuntu1
ii  scim-gtk2-immodule 1.4.2-0.3
ii  scim-modules-socket 1.4.2-0.3ubuntu 
ii  scim-modules-table 0.5.3-0.2ubuntu
ii  scim-tables-ja  0.5.3-0.2ubuntu

then

ps ax | grep scim
 6811 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
 6830 ? Ss  0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager
 6831 ? Ssl  0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay
 6833 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11

After this info I started to kill the above 4 processes. The two process that always seemed to return to me was scim-helper-manager & scim-panel-gtk. But now with only those two processes scim wasn't working. So I started the processes again exactly like how they looked from before but starting from the ihghest process no.
scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11
this didn't bring anything back
/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
well...it works in firefox but not in konsole now. So I killed the two scim processes again and started them, this time starting with the lowest priority no.
1.

/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11

still nothing
2.

/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay

POOF...now scim works in konsole again.

So please try and kill your scim-launcher processes and run them as I have done(starting with 1). Try and run /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager and /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay as well. Your processes doesnẗ match exactly with the arguments so please use my arguments.

Now after you have done this I can only think of 2 things that you can try and these are final resort. I'm using kde3.5 don't know if that matters. Maybe downloading the anthy library and compiling it yourself will help in bringing it there(http://sourceforge.jp/projects/anthy/) I may have done so in the distant past.

Hope this works out for ya...I was so happy when I got scim working fully again and I can even kill it and restore it so it is quite stable on my machine now we need to get it to work for you. Hopefully the scim-launcher parameters will make a difference.

[GoldBuggie]

Ahh..one final thing that I can give info on.
check that your locales are correctly set up

locale

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.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=

Notice that LC_ALL is empty. This is important since LC_ALL owerrides the other LC_XXXX

[kairu0]

Hey, it works!

I noticed in your "dpkg -l" list that you had scim-anthy and I didn't. So I installed it, logged out, logged back in, and now I'm in business!

Thanks a million for your help man.

By the way, you don't have a tray icon for scim or skim do you?

[GoldBuggie]

It works!!! PERFECT! I'm so very happy for ya'. I was getting worried. Thanks for sticking thrue it all. Now I know it works.

And no I do not have an icon in the systray. Don't really know why.

[kairu0]

Now I can use Ubuntu + Kubuntu together again!

[kLy]

OK, I've tried everything here but there's NOTHING! Running "skim" or "skim -d" (even with --verbose) displays absolutely nothing and there's no tray icon or anything, and "scim -d" just says:

Smart Common Input Method 1.4.2

Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
Loading kconfig Config module ...
Creating backend ...

Launching a SCIM process with x11...
Loading kconfig Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Failed to launch SCIM.

I've followed everything here and my locales etc. are set up properly... what is the darn matter? Help! Thx.

[GoldBuggie]

I know that scim nor skim won't run when executed from the konsole. Please follow the whole thread and do the debug that it explained. The thread contains basically all that I can give you as information.

Make sure that the right processes are running etc.

There will be no icon in the systray but scim will work with all apps.

[kLy]

Hi

I *have* tried the things in the steps provided but nothing...

Running scim-launcher as above has scim daemonised but nothing when I Ctrl+Space. Trying to run the panel produces: "Failed to initialize Panel Agent!"

Thx