Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009 15:56:20 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> But, all I want is to use scim within openoffice writer: it's for my >>> sister, she speaks Chinese and >>> needs writing chinese characters. >>> >>> With gedit, she simply does: >>> >>> $ GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" gedit >>> >>> , but this does not work with openoffice. Can you suggest how to >>> achieve it? >>> She needs word processor features. > > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I have always had problems with OpenOffice. [...] But the solution was to >> use another Word Processor, e.g. KWord. I am sure there are others that >> would work fine. You say that it works in Gedit. >> >> I did at one point find that only K* applications worked (she uses KDE), but >> as she is quite happy with KMail and KWord it wasn't a problem for her. >> >> [...] >> >> Kword (KOffice if you want the whole suite) on the other hand is easy both >> to >> install and to use. When she and her computer are here, I can also look and >> see whether it works in Abiword, if that would be a help. > > > Unfortunately, I installed kword and scim doesn't work either with it: when I > do C-space, the scim toolbar does not appear. > > Please let me know if you catch some more information about how you > granddaughter does. > > Bye > Rodolfo > >
I am jumping into this thread here so .... Looks like you still do not have it working yet. I have scim working here properly on Debian Testing. The packages that I have installed are listed at the end of this post. After install scim and the related m17 packages, I had to set my variables so that I have: $> set | grep -i scim GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim xmodifie...@im=scim I have set these in /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim in my case. The lines that do this in the files are: #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" #QT_IM_MODULE=xim QT_IM_MODULE="scim" I supposed you can set these in your .bashrc as well, but I haven't tried that. Next, you need to be careful about the locale you are using. In my case, $> locale LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_ALL= I needed to add these to my ~/.scim/global along with other locales that I may use. So the line reads this in my case: /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_CA.utf8,en_US.UTF-8,fr_FR.UTF-8 Once this is done, you need to start scim. I just stated it once (I am using KDE) and it automatically starts by itself whenever I log in. To start it manually, I think you need to give the command "scim -d" on a prompt. I sometimes have had to relogin after tweaking scim settings during a session. With these things in place, I can get multi-language in put in OOo. I also noticed that if I installed openoffice.org-kde, scim stopped working for OOo. It probably has something to do with KDE and environment variables. Good luck, ->HS PS: Some relevant packages that I have installed: $> dpkg -l *scim* *i18* *office* *m17* | grep ^i | gawk '{print $1 " " $2 "\t" $3}' ii debconf-i18n 1.5.24 ii kde-i18n-fr 4:3.5.10-2 ii libgoffice-0-6 0.6.3-1 ii libgoffice-0-6-common 0.6.3-1 ii libgoffice-dbg 0.6.3-1 ii libm17n-0 1.5.2-1 ii libmono-i18n1.0-cil 1.9.1+dfsg-5 ii libmono-i18n2.0-cil 1.9.1+dfsg-5 ii libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-6 ii m17n-contrib 1.1.7-1 ii m17n-db 1.5.2-1 ii openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-base 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-calc 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-draw 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-evolution 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-gnome 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-gtk 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-impress 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-math 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-officebean 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-report-builder-bin 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-style-andromeda 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-style-crystal 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-style-tango 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-writer 1:2.4.1-15 ii openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8 ii scim 1.4.7-3 ii scim-m17n 0.2.2-3 -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org