Re: [tlug] nihongo nyuuryoku for a gaijin

[Bud Roth <bud@example.com>]

Scott:

Your Ubuntu section worked like a charm. I installed ibus-anthy and ran 
ibus-setup. I found I needed to reboot, but then the control-space combo 
brought up the Japanese input system!

お世話になりました。これからも宜しくお願いします。

On 2013年01月12日 22:57, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:17:02PM -0500, Bud Roth wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > I'm a US cit about to move (back) to Japan after about 20 years. I'm a
> > hardcore linux enthusiast.  I've bounced around distros, but generally
> > do all my home computing on Linux or FreeBSD.
> >
> > One thing that I'm unfamiliar with is nihongo input on a linux system.
> > I've got Japanese on my work laptop working, but was wondering if
> > someone might have some pointers on what the best input system is for
> > inputting Japanese with an American standard keyboard.  (FYI, I've got
> > Ubuntu and Linux Mint desktops right now.)
> With both Ubuntu and Mint, it's pretty easy.  You will use ibus-anthy.  (In
> Fedora, they're replacing anthy with mozc, but I don't believe that's in
> Ubuntu yet.)
>
> In FreeBSD, I believe it's also ibus-anthy, but I haven't used Japanese on
> FreeBSD in several years.
>
> Long ago, I put up a page about the whole thing at
> http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
>
> However, it's almost certainly out of date with Ubuntu, and actually,
> Japanese input has become so trivial on most distributions these days that
> I no longer keep it updated.