On 2016-03-20 11:17:25, Peter Kane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I use jserver/kinput2 because it works with cwm and I can run it on a legacy
> i386 system and connect over ssh from an amd64 machine (I was hoping the new
> vmd development work would help there, but i386 support seems a way off). The
> new UTF-8 desktop settings in -current work OK for me to display UTF-8 fonts,
> it is just the occasional inputting of kanji that I need something for. If
> someone can show how to use uim/anthy with cwm in a non-root manner I would
> be grateful.
>
> uim does have appeal because it supports a wide range of languages and I
> would like something for Chinese, too.
>
It's been a long time since I installed and configured uim/anthy
(it Just Works), so I may not remember all the steps it took, but
it's fairly straightforward.
These are the installed ports I have:
anthy-9100hp1 japanese input method
uim-1.8.6p1 multilingual input method library
uim-gtk-1.8.6p1 uim for GTK+2
uim-gtk3-1.8.6p2 uim for GTK+3
uim-kde-1.8.6p1 uim for KDE3
uim-qt4-1.8.6p1 uim for QT4
uim-tomoe-gtk-0.6.0 japanese handwriting
In .xinitrc (non-relevant lines omitted):
[...]
export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim
export GTK_IM_MODULE="uim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="uim"
env LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 uim-xim &
[...]
exec env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" /usr/X11R6/bin/cwm
Quite frankly, I can't remember why I put the
"env LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and 'env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"' lines
in there. I think at one point they mattered, but with the base
system having/being switched to UTF-8 by default, they may no
longer be necessary.
After that, simply typing "startx" will bring up CWM with a
working IME.
Running /usr/local/bin/uim-pref-gtk will bring up a GUI you can
use to configure UIM. There are probably *way* more options here
than you'll need. Configuring the keyboard shortcut you want to
use to switch input methods is probably the only one you'll really
need at first. I have mine set up to toggle between an IPA
keyboard (for inputting linguistics-related symbols), a regular
keyboard, and the anthy IME.
You can also run one of:
uim-toolbar-gtk
uim-toolbar-gtk3
uim-toolbar-qt4
uim-toolbar-gtk-systray
uim-toolbar-gtk3-systray
If you want a GUI-toolbar or systray application to run that lets
you click on buttons to toggle/switch between IMEs. Though
personally, I find them to be superfluous, especially in a
minimalist windowmanager like CWM.
Please let me know if you're successful in setting up UIM/anthy
with this information; I can always try to offer better advice :)
--
Bryan
