Japanese input in FC3

[Nezumikozo]

I had Japanese input working under Mandrake 9.2 in KDE a while back.  I 
will get it set up again and let you know the results.

Gambarou!

Jay

 

Madison Kelly wrote:

> 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:
>
> -=-=-=-=-
> 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
> -=-=-=-=-
>
>   The results of which are:
>
> -=-=-=-=-
> [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 = []
> -=-=-=-=-
>
>   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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