Re: [tlug] Trouble with Japanese input on a new install

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi David,


On 19/04/11 09:38, David J Iannucci wrote:
> I'm only bugging you guys out of a certain desperation... :-}
>
> I have a newly-installed Gentoo machine that has very similar hardware
> and a similar configuration to another less-newly-installed one. On the
> latter, Japanese input (with ibus) is working fine. On the former, I
> can't do input in Firefox or Thunderbird, the two I need it most for.
...
> Anyone here have any (even vague) clues that might help?

I hate it when this happens -- when you have two Linux 
machines and you want one to have the same functionality as 
the other...  Is the OS version identical?
Out of desperation, I usually just do a list of all the 
packages in one machine and install all of them on the 
other.  And then diff the /etc files one-by-one with a 
script.  Not a great idea and maybe you've thought of it 
already...
It could also be a user setting.  Something in your ~/.* 
files.  Since it is a new machine, you probably don't care 
so much about what is in your ~/ directory -- maybe you can 
copy all of the ~/.* files over?
Hope you solve your problem!

Ray