SCIM in openbox (or otherwise outside of kde/gnome) [SOLVED]

[Pev]

I've followed the excellent instructions at: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-263174-highlight-enabling+japanese.html and I can now use scim-uim and uim-anthy to input japanese kana and kanji within kde. I have not tried gnome because I don't want to emerge it just for that purpose. Trouble is I like to run openbox, typically. When I run openbox I can run SCIM with either the gtk or kde panel option selected and the icon will appear in pypanel. What's more I can access the right click menu and change the configuration. What I can not do is actually activate the program (by pressing ctrl-space). Without that functionality I can't select another input method (there is just a blank box) and the program wont do its work.

Does anyone know a way around this?[/code]

here's what's installed:

[bunsen]

I can't be sure about openbox, but I do have scim and scim-anthy working for both enlightement (e16.something) and also for xfce. One thing you've not specified as having done is to start the scim daemon

In either my user .xinitrc or .xsession I include the line

[Pev]

I went over the instructions you gave and that were on the site in question and changed the following:

I added this line to my bashrc (again the variable is being set properly):

[Pev]

I think the problem is definitely xim specific, judging from the fact that kde works. I found this wiki page that is written to address the problem but following its intstructions did not help:
http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/general/why_xim_apps_does_not_work

My bashrc is now:

[bunsen]

Please forgive me for saying it, but it seems to me that working from several guides is confusing matters, my own input now included.
The guide from the killerbob site is all I used to set up Japanese input support on an English speaking system for my wife, who uses it daily for her job as a translator. It certainly works well for her, but maybe you have other requirements.

These lines are added to her $HOME/.bash_profile

[Pev]

I'm not entirely clear on the process by which it occured but I fixed the problem. The trouble was that I had put my environmental variables in bashrc, which isn't always loaded in an xsession. I was getting in-kde support for the program only when I had started that program from a terminal. Putting the environment variables into .bash_profile as bunsen suggested (and then into my session files -unless I need seperate configs) solved the problem. Then, after an 'USE="gnome gtk" emerge scim-uim' (I wanted uim in case I want to do other things with it later, and the use variables pretty much on a hunch) and a reboot scim started working perfectly well in openbox, using the gtk panel. Not sure how that happened, but I am content.

Next step (eventually) is getting openoffice and latex support and trying to get a terminal with support, but I'll cross those bridges when I get to them. ありがと、bunsen-さん.

my final openbox session file:

[Bigun]

[VoidMage]

Note, that tomorrow this thread would turn 4 years old.
What's more, it was providing incorrect solution in the first place.

Setting up scim is not that hard, note however, that tray icon will
fail to work with recent gtk+ (native windows problem).
You may also look at ibus.

[Bigun]

Well, I've set it up using scim-setup, and using the keyboard interface didn't seem to do anything.

But I digress, I'll try ibus.
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[Bigun]