HOWTO: Japanese input in qt and gtk!

[bdash]

Solved using this post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=59985

[James Keating]

To run SCIM without Gnome or GDM,
or with any single KDE-based application:

(setup note: I use FVWM2 and also have removed GDM, which means the scripts /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75custom-scim_startup and ~/.gnome2/session-manual have no effect even if I start Gnome. The only KDE-based application I use is Opera, the static version. These instructions are current for Edgy.)

To get SCIM and Anthy for Japanese, I installed the following packages:
anthy
im-switch
scim, scim-anthy, scim-gtk2-immodule, scim-modules-socket, scim-modules-table, scim-qtimm, scim-tables-ja, scim-uim
uim-anthy, uim-common, uim-fep, uim-gtk2.0, uim-qt, uim-utils, uim-xim

If you run GDM, you also will need m17n-env and scim-m17n

Then I ran scim-setup once from the command line to configure it. Recent versions don't seem to require this -- activate SCIM by pressing control+space, and right-click on the SCIM icon, then look around at the options. They used to be confusing but now are straightforward, and the defaults probably will be acceptable.

To make SCIM available for everything, I have a script that starts X, SCIM and FVWM. This should work for any window manager, adjusting the last line. (For Gnome it would be xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session)
#!/bin/sh
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; export LANGUAGE
LINGUAS=en_US.UTF-8; export LINGUAS
SUPPORTED=en_US:C:en_US:ISO-8859-15:ja_JP.eucJP:ja_JP.UTF-8:ja_JP:ja:ja_JP.JIS7:ja_JP.SJIS; export SUPPORTED
LANG=en_US.UTF-8; export LANG
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_CTYPE
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8; export LC_MESSAGES
XMODIFIERS="@im=local"; export XMODIFIERS
GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"; export GTK_IM_MODULE
QT_IM_MODULE="scim"; export QT_IM_MODULE
XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"; export XIM_PROGRAM
scim -d
# start whatever window manager you use
xinit /usr/bin/fvwm -f /home/james/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc

I've left in the QT line for laughs -- it doesn't make any difference.


To get Opera (or any other single KDE program) to accept input through SCIM, this works from the command line:
scim -d & QT_IM_MODULE="xim" opera &

This does create a second instance of SCIM. But the second one is quite small, and the two don't interfere with each other. If I exit Opera the second instance remains, but if I start Opera again it is reused, so I never have more than those two instances.

You can also make it the startup command for that program in your window manager. In FVWM, the line is
+ "Opera" Exec exec scim -d & QT_IM_MODULE="xim" opera
In Gnome, I suppose it would be
scim -d & QT_IM_MODULE="xim" opera

[Najand]

Unfortunately SCIM fails with a lot of commercial softwares like Realplayer, Opera, Adobe Acrobat Reader. For personal use, uim and anthy are much more reliable than scim (or skim in KDE).

[drepster]

Hi

Just a quick not to let you know that for kubuntu I had to install the following package: scim-qtimm
Otherwise only my gnome apps worked with scim.

cheers
andre

[Hiroshima]

Add scim to GNOME (ubuntu)
sudo touch ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "[Default]" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "num_clients=1" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "0,RestartStyleHint=3" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "0,Priority=50" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "0,RestartCommand=scim -d" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual
echo "0,Program=scim" >> ~/.gnome2/session-manual

I assume that if I do this, I will have scim working in Ubuntu. I just upgraded to Dapper, is the process the same?

Cheers,
Hiroshima

[emry]

Thanks!
This worked great!

For those who got errors trying to set it up, make sure to use sudo.
^^

[kebellekek]

Hello all,

I just had a fresh install of ubuntu. I installed Japanese language support as instructed but I have a problem.

Here is my problem:
I press "w" and hiragana "wa" shows up on the screen (without waiting for me to enter a)， then i press "k" it shows "ka" in hiragana. so if i press "sksk" i end up with "sakasaka" on the screen. It has auto completion which i dont want.

Another problem is that if I press enter after typing "watashiha" ,which is shown in hiragana on screen, it converts that string back to romaji. So i am unable to enter hiragana because they all end up in romaji.

Also, if i press space the kanji choosing screen does not show up. So I am unable to select kanji characters.

All of these futures were working on my old ubuntu. I dont know what is wrong with the new one. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

[James Keating]

Looks like you're in hiragana mode. You should be able to get Anthy by cycling through input modes with Control+Alt+Down or Up (I believe that's the default).

To adjust settings, right-click on the SCIM icon at the far left of the SCIM toolbar that pops up. Click on SCIM setup. Front End, Global Setup lets you change the key combinations that turn SCIM on and off, and cycle through the input modes. IMEngine, Global Setup lets you pick which input modes can be available. For simplicity, I have English/European, plus Anthy and Hiragana -- you have to make Hiragana mode available to input with Anthy the usual way by typing Romaji that change to hiragana that you convert to kanji. Under IMEngine, Anthy, I have Input mode: Hiragana, Typing method: Romaji and Conversion mode: Multi segment.

[ubuntu27]

Guys/Gals!

Use this guide for installing Japanese, Korean or Chinese write support.

The one instructed in this thread is too old. It was meant for Hoary.


So here it is:

SCIM for Ubuntu (GNOME)

SCIM for Kubuntu (KDE)

[kebellekek]

Thank you so much both of you.

Now it works like a charm.