Japanese input in FC3

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I have been trying for a while off and on to get Japanese input
working under Linux (specifically Fedora Core 3). So far though the only
thing I have accomplished is having an error pop up each time I load
Gnome:

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Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
60801000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
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   The results of which are:

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[madison at akane ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
[madison at akane ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
  layouts = [us,jp]
  model = pc105
  overrideSettings = false
  options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
  update_handlers = []
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   I got that after trying to play with 'system-switch-im' though I 
can't remember now what exactly I did that started it, nothing I have 
tried since has made the error go away. When I select "Advanced 
Settings" and highlight "Japanese" (the only one) I have four options: 
'skkinput', 'kinput2-canna', 'kinput2-wnn' and 'skkinput'. Selecting 
none of them seem to do anything though I admit I have never gotten 
Japanese input working before so I could be missing the obvious.

   My experience with Japanese input was a friend whom I setup Japanese 
input up on her Win98 and later Win2k machines (a few years ago). I have 
seen Japanese input under WinXP (on my roommates laptop) and it has a 
really nice box where you can freeform enter a Kanji character and it 
will try to recognise the character. Is there something like that for 
Linux yet (even if it's commercial)? How /does/ Japanese input work 
under Linux/Gnome? Is it like MS where there is a menu in the corner 
where you choose romanji, hiragana, katakana, etc.?

   Any help would be great! Even a pointer to a recent how-to would be 
great (everything I have found goes back to like RH7.3!).

Madison



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Madison Kelly (Digimer)
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