Solved scim does not work

[notooth]

Hi,

I've just installed textproc/scim on XFCE4 desktop. The scim icon is visible on the taskbar, but when I click on it, there is no pop-up menu to choose input methods. Can anyone help?

 

[scottro]

textproc/scim as in the input manager? It hasn't been developed, (to my knowledge) in years, and has pretty much, at least for Japanese and Chinese input, been replaced by textproc/ibus, which has now been replaced by chinese/fcitx. If this is for Japanese input, I will modestly <snicker> recommend my own page http://srobb.net/jpninpt.html.

 

[t1066]

Have you installed any input tables for textproc/scim? A quick find show that there are the following tables to choose from:

• korean/scim-tables
• korean/scim-hangul
• chinese/scim-array
• chinese/scim-tables
• chinese/scim-pinyin
• chinese/scim-fcitx
• japanese/scim-tables
• japanese/scim-skk
• japanese/scim-honoka
• japanese/scim-honoka-plugin-romkan
• japanese/scim-tomoe
• japanese/scim-uim
• japanese/scim-canna
• japanese/scim-honoka-plugin-wnn
• japanese/scim-anthy

 

[notooth]

I've just installed input methods from /usr/ports. It is working now. Thanks all.

 

[kusanagiyang]

Hello notooth,
I have been trying to make textproc/scim work for last couple of days without any luck... Can you let me know how you got it to work stey by step? Thanks a million~

 

[notooth]

Hi kusanagiyang,

I do not remember exactly what I did, but I will try with:
$ sudo pkg install scim scim-table-imengine
$ sudo portsnap fetch
$ sudo portsnap extract
$ cd /usr/ports/vietnamese     (pick the input language you prefer)
$ sudo make install clean

Put this content in ~/.profile:

export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
export GT_IM_MODULE='scim'
export QT_IM_MODULE='scim'

Add this command to the Startup Script of your desktop: scim

Now you should reboot and see the scim icon on the taskbar.