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- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 17:37:11 -0600
- From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] KMail and kinput2
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Anders Jansson wrote: > Sam Tilders wrote: > > > >Basically, I'd like to be able to choose easily between typing in english > >or japanese into KMail. > > I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago. To my understanding, you > won't succeed with Kmail. The key to success is something called XIM (X > input method), and it is only a few applications that uses XIM. That's a misleading statement, even if factually correct (not sure whether it is that or not). XIM is one of several input protocols supported by kinput2, and according to what I have read is the preferred one, whereas the kinput protocol (which used to be quite common) is deprecated, and not supported by many applications these days. > kterm is > one of them, Yes, it supports both XIM and kinput. > whereas the KDE konsole does not use it. Really? Do you know which protocol it does use, then? > Many X11 applications already support XIM, for example: > > * most KDE 2 and most Gnome applications > * Browsers like Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror > * Editors like Emacs, XEmacs, gvim > * terminals like kterm and rxvt > * Java applications > > As you can see, kmail is not listed here. It doesn't claim to be a comprehensive list, and it does say "most KDE 2 ... applications." Do you have other evidence? In order to use XIM, you need to be sure kinput2 is running with XIM enabled, which it isn't by default. For example: $ kinput2 -xim +kinput -canna & ... works for me. '+kinput' means to disable kinput protocol. I'm not sure if you can use 2 protocols at once or not. I have also seen a recommendation to set two environment variables, XIM and one other that I can't find right now (something like XIM_INPUT), both to values of "kinput2", but I haven't found that to be necessary. One thing you definitely need to do is to set the environment variable: XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" You probably already have that set if you are able to use kinput2 at all, but it's possible that kinput2 could be enabled on a per-application basis. You can check with: echo $XMODIFIERS The above setting will make all (?) X applications use kinput2. Hope this helps. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, Colorado, USA mgushee@example.com http://www.havenrock.com/
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