On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>>> I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> export xmodifie...@im=scim >>>> >>>>> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >>>> >>>>> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim >> [...] putting those `export' commands in /etc/profile has the advantage >> that I can put chinese characters also in the command line, with `C-space'. >> The disadvantage is that scim is automatically started every time I start >> the Terminal application, even if I don't want to use scim. The Terminal is >> slowed down when starting. >> >> On the other hand, running those three commands from command line has the >> advantage that I start scim only when necessary; but then it seems that I >> lose the possibility of using scim to input characters in the shell. >> >> I don't know if it's clear... Aneurin Price <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> writes: > I don't know anything about scim, or what terminal you're using, so I'm > guessing that it's a Gnome Terminal based on the fact that you've been > talking about scim with Gtk apps. I would imagine - and may be wrong - that > the terminal uses the environment variable to set its input method on start > up, so in order to have the ability to use those characters in the terminal, > you would need to set those variables in the parent process. One way of doing > that is to put them in your .xsessionrc (I said .xsession earlier, but I > believe that was wrong). This would, as you say, be equivalent for that user > to putting them in /etc/profile, so every Gtk application would use scim. > > How are you starting your terminal? If you're using a menu entry, you could > create a duplicate entry, then edit the command from > '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal' - or whatever it is - to 'xmodifie...@im=scim > GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal' and the > environment variables would apply to that terminal alone, allowing you to use > Chinese characters there without using scim everywhere. You could keep using > the old menu entry when you don't need to write in Chinese. Is that more like > what you want? (I hope that works. It should do if I've understood the > situation.) I start the terminal by left-clicking on the small icon on the desktop panel. I tried to do what you suggest: I right clicked on the small terminal icon, then in Properties I edited the command from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal to: 'xmodifie...@im=scim GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal' , but when I left click to launch the terminal I get an error message: Details: Failed to execute child process "xmodifie...@im=scim GTK_IM_MODULE=scim QT_IM_MODULE=scim /usr/bin/gnome-terminal" (No such file or directory) Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
