Re: [tlug] Ubuntu 14.04 Setup, Keyboard Toggling for Jp-En, Etc

[rost52 <bugquestcontri@example.com>]

On 2014-08-26 12:42, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> I've been running some test installs of Ubuntu 14.04-LTS and thought
> I'd put some of the results in here.
>
> As many of you will remember, I had some trouble getting Japanese text
> input going with Ubuntu 12.04 (even when doing a Japanese language
> install), so I'm happy to report that on my first try with a Japanese
> language install of U14.04-LTS, it actually worked out-of-box (if
> that's an acceptable expression).  It automatically had an icon for
> English and one for Japanese (in the upper right corner) that you
> could toggle back and forth via the mouse.
>
> There was one small (soon to become big) issue though.  The stated
> keyboard shortcuts for toggling back and forth between English and
> Japanese were non-functional:
>
> Switch to next source using:
> Control R
>
> Switch to previous source using:
> Shift+Super+Space
>
> So the only way to switch back and forth was via clicking on the upper
> right-hand corner icon to go between English and Japanese.  I didn't
> think much about that - figuring I'd discover a way to do it with the
> keyboard before long.
>
> Fast-forward to test-install #2 (for a friend).
>
> I used the same installation disk and things proceeded normally, until
> the update phase after the initial installation.  I stepped away from
> the computer for a few minutes and Ubuntu's default password-locked
> screensaver kicked in.
>
> And here's where a serious issue arose.  I went to type in the
> password and discovered that the computer had switched itself over to
> Japanese input.  Since the clickable icon for toggling it was behind
> the password-protected screensaver, and the default keyboard shortcuts
> didn't work, I couldn't kill the screensaver....
>
> Since I was in the middle of an update, I waited until the hard drive
> seemed to have finished working and shut the computer down (which is
> doable via mouse on the screensaver page) and restarted it.  It worked
> after that, but I noticed there was no icon for English this time.
> Apparently there was Japanese and 直接入力 only.  This might be
> acceptable, but the automatic Japanese mode for password entry was
> certainly not acceptable, so I gave up on that installation and...
>
> Fast-forward to test-install #3
>
> I did an English-language install and found third-party advice on-line
> for getting Japanese to work:
> http://moritzmolch.com/1453
>
> Basically it's:
>
> Gear-Mark>[System Settings]>[Language Support] > etc.
>
> I did that, and it worked!  But... the computer periodically would
> drop into Japanese input mode on its own and all keyboard shortcuts I
> tried (to toggle back to English) didn't work, so to prevent getting
> locked out again via Japanese input mode for that bloody default
> password-protected screen saver, I looked up how to at least turn off
> the need for a password for the screensaver and found this:
>
> Ctrl+Alt+T
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false
>
> - which worked fine.
>
> And then I tried changing the keyboard combination to toggle back and
> forth from English to Japanese and nothing seemed to work... until I
> set it to the old standby [Shift]+[Space] and then it worked.
>
> And... there are some other details, but that's the main part.  It's
> working well, but I find it quite irritating that the machine drops
> into Japanese input on its own, which Linux has never done to me
> before.  It doesn't happen often, but has happened several times since
> installation of U14.04.  If there's a setting to stop that evil
> behavior, I'd like to know so I can stop it from doing that.
>
> Lyle
Thanks for this information. Ubuntu is really easy in this matter.

I tried to install IBUS-MOZC on Antergos (Arch Linux based) but starting up IBUS changed my keyboard 
from Japanese to English. Do not know any way to change back to Japanese keyboard.

Will now re-install Antergos to get the Japanese keyboard back and then try fcitx-mozc.

Open for any help and appreciate it a lot, because I am still a newbie.