SCIM Not Working

das dasd.here at gmail.com
Sat May 24 18:26:21 CEST 2008


On Sat, 24 May 2008 12:18:24 -0400
"Pariksheet Nanda" <pariksheet.nanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Das,
> 
> SCIM is started up based on the following shell environment variables:
> XMODIFIERS, GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE
> 
> Note that these variables have to be set *early* in your X-session
> initialization routine so, for Xfce, it wouldn't work if you simply
> put them in ~/.xinitrc. They would have to go in
> /etc/profiles.d/scim.sh or similar (I'm not sure if that is a valid
> path on Fedora though... it works for me on Gentoo :)
> 
> These are the values of I have setup my SCIM program...
> $ cat /etc/profiles.d/scim.sh
> export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM    #case matters for this variable!
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
> 

Dear Pariksheet

So many thanks. You have provided me with the things I can start
searching with. And tomorrow is a Sunday. And all your explanations
were quite good for me. 

-- 
das
ddts.randomink.org



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