Re: [tlug] Japanese input

[Matt Gushee <mgushee@example.com>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:31:13AM +0200, David Oftedal wrote:
> Tony Laszlo wrote:
> 
> >while we are on this subject, does anyone know 
> >how to cure the following problem, please. 
> >When using kinput2 + canna for input with 
> >Mozilla, gedit, etc., the henkan dialogue 
> >box appears off the screen (this is a laptop; 
> >the screen is a bit small, I suppose). 
> >The top of the frame of that dialogue box 
> >appears, so I can grab it an pull it up, 
> >but I have to do that each time. 
> >Any way around this? 
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> I guess you could use wnn instead of canna, but that creates its 
> separate problems, believe me... I only runn wnn because I couldn't 
> config canna right now... Sorry that I can't help you further.

? I don't understand how your choice of conversion servers would affect
the window position. However, you have some control over where kinput2
pops up with X resources: there is over-the-spot, on-the-spot,
off-the-spot, and root window input ... the only way I can really
describe them is to quote the man page at you, so you might as well go
read it for yourself. However, my ~/.Xresources has the following--as I
recall I cut and pasted it all from some newsgroup post in the distant
past, then changed a few lines until it worked reasonably well:

  *OverTheSpotConversion.AutoSpotForwarding: true
  *OverTheSpotConversion.ShrinkWindow: true
  *OverTheSpotConversion.modeLocation: tracktext
  !*OverTheSpotConversion.modeLocation: bottomleft
  *OverTheSpotConversion*modeShell.input: false
  *OverTheSpotConversion*modeShell.allowShellResize: true
  *OverTheSpotConversion*text.borderWidth: 0
  *OverTheSpotConversion*modeShell.borderWidth: 2
  ! off-the-spot type input
  *OffTheSpotConversion.input: false
  *OffTheSpotConversion*modeShell.borderWidth: 0
  *OffTheSpotConversion.text.borderWidth: 0
  ! root-window type input
  *SeparateConversion*form*vertDistance: 3
  *SeparateConversion*mode.left: chainleft
  *SeparateConversion*mode.right: chainleft
  *SeparateConversion*mode.top: chaintop
  *SeparateConversion*mode.bottom: chaintop
  *SeparateConversion*mode.width: 80
  *SeparateConversion*mode.height: 20
  *SeparateConversion*mode.resizable: true
  *SeparateConversion*text.fromVert: mode
  *SeparateConversion*text.left: chainleft
  *SeparateConversion*text.right: chainright
  *SeparateConversion*text.top: chaintop
  *SeparateConversion*text.bottom: chainbottom
  *SeparateConversion*text.width: 400
  *SeparateConversion*text.height: 100
  ! status display string justification -- for over-the-spot and
  off-the-spot
  !  "left" seems appropriate for most applications.
  Kinput2*modeShell.mode.justify: left

Then in some cases you can also specify one of the input styles on a
per-application basis, e.g.

  *KTerm*preeditType: OverTheSpot

Hope that helps a bit.


> そんなお茶目さんには罰ゲ・踉札狎纔瘢韭絎竢逹パンツ十分！

So what does it mean? 'Fraid my Japanese slang is a bit out-of-date. Or
is it one of those fragile expressions that is ruined by explanation?

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