[Pkg-ime-devel] Re: SCIM and OpenOffice on Debian

Ming Hua minghua@rice.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:30:07 -0600


On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:13:34PM +0000, Robert Tucker wrote:
> Dear Ming Hua

Hi Rober Tucker,

(I'm cc:ing this to the mailing list for Debian input method packaging,
hope you don't mind.)

> I see that you are the Debian maintainer of the SCIM package.
> 
> I, and, I believe, a number of other people are experiencing problems 
> getting SCIM to work with OpenOffice (The GIMP and Java applications).
> 
> I've posted for a solution:
> 
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=16540
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=283998

I am afraid SCIM is not so well used, so probably not too many people
can answer your questions.  A better place to ask would be the mailing
lists:
    upstream:  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scim-user
    Debian:  the Email address is pkg-ime-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org,
             but unfortunately alioth.debina.org is offline for
             maintainence now, so I can't give you a link.  Go to
             http://alioth.debian.org and search for project pkg-ime
             when it's back online.
And of course, sending Emails to me is fine, too.

> but I'm doubtful many people know the answer.
> 
> Your enlightenment or direction to a source of information would be most 
> appreciated.

These are actually more than one problem, so I can't answer for sure.
First you must make sure you have a correct locale.  Look at the output
of ``locale'' in your X enviroment (say, from a terminal), and if it's
not a *.UTF-8 locale or a zh_CN.* locale, you are going to have
problems.  Set it to a UTF-8 one (en_US.UTF-8 would be the easiest,
otherwise you need to modify the configuration files, see
/usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian for details) and try again.

I can also give two suggestions:  1.  Try over the spot mode.  You need
to go to SCIM setup program (right click SCIM panel -> Setup, or run
command ``scim-setup'', go to FrontEnd -> X Window, unselect ``On The
Spot''.  2. Try the GTK+ IM mode instead of XIM.  Basically you need to
set GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" for X environment.  Still, see
/usr/share/doc/scim/README.Debian for details.

You may need extra effort to make Java work (set up fonts, etc.), as I
don't have any experience myself, I can't provide more help.  But these
should work for OO.o and GIMP (I suspect they are the ``on the spot''
problem, if you set your locale correct).

I'll add more instructions about these in README.Debian, thanks for
bring this up.

Hope this helps,
Ming
2005.01.31