Problem with SCIM and Firefox [SOLVED]

borden_hawk · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Japan

I've got SCIM up and running. For some programs (xterm, konqueror) it works fine, inputs Japanese well. But for other programs (firefox) it allows me to select the input method, but whatever input method I select doesn't work. I can select Anthy, Canna, and so forth, but it won't let me switch from direct input to kana.

I've tried all of the suggestions that I've found in the forums and so far nothing's worked. Any ideas?

frostschutz · Veteran Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 1913 Location: Germany

xterm probably uses xim, for konqueror it's probably qtimm. Firefox on the other hand is GTK based and probably requires the GTK input module. This should be installed automatically along with SCIM, as long as you have the 'gtk' use flag enabled. You can find out using 'emerge -vp scim'. In the list of use flags shown, +gtk should be included.

borden_hawk · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Japan

Here's the output from emerge -pv scim:

frostschutz · Veteran Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 1913 Location: Germany

Do you have GTK_IM_MODULE=scim set?

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

There's a node on the wiki for the environmental variables. You may also want to emerge scim-qtimm.
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borden_hawk · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Japan

I had the environmental variables set fine, I just had to emerge scim-qtimm, and everything seems to work now.

Well, it's not working in the terminal, but that's not really important. It's working in firefox, konqueror, gaim, etc.

Thanks for your help!

frostschutz · Veteran Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 1913 Location: Germany

Hmmm, that's kind of weird. Is your Firefox QT based? I do not have scim-qtimm emerged (actually, I do not have anything related to KDE/QT emerged), and it works fine for me in everything. If your Firefox does not use QT, it seems weird why qtimm should solve anything, as it's not supposed to be related in any way.

borden_hawk · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Japan

Yeah, it didn't really make sense to me either. As far as I know I've just got normal firefox. It could've been some weird combination of emerging and rebooting that fixed it too.

newtonian · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: similar issue

I had a similar issue. scim worked fine with KDE apps but didn't allow me to enter any Japanese text in on firefox or other gtk based apps.

I fixed by enabling the gtk flags on uim and scim in package.use