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Is there anybody, who got Skim working in ArchLinux?
I am asking, because I have troubles to get Skim (KDE frontend for SCIM) to work in ArchLinux. In this forum I have found also other people with troubles, but no message, that Skim really works in ArchLinux. There are many instructions on the net, and, I did get working Skim on Gentoo and on Kubuntu and SUSE too - without problems.
AFAIK ArchLinux is the only distribution, in which Skim doesn't work properly. You can do any possible configuration, but there will be no choise button for input method on the Skim panel. So, if there is somebody with working Skim in ArchLinux (SKIM 1.4.5 compiled with libscim 1.4.4 using KDE 3.5.6), I will search what I do wrong. If there is nobody who is using Skim in Archlinux, it will be time to search what is wrong in Arch (or Skim package). Thanks a lot.
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Some time ago i had a working skim setup to use traditional chinese on my machine, but i dont remember exactly what i have done to make it work... Maybe this can help you:
- activate the locales for the languages you want to use
- install the appropiate KDE language packs
- install the right input engine (i used chewing for chinese)
you have to set up some shell variables to use it (/etc/profile):
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GBK" *put the locale/language you want to use here*
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scimThe weird thing with arch/skim is that i had to change my system locale if i wanted to use skim... I have a german system and when i had to use skim, i changed the locales to zh_TW and reboot... After doing that, skim worked for me...
Sorry, can give you no more info as i dont have it installed anymore... I only know for sure that i have got it working after some fiddling...
want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod
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- activate the locales for the languages you want to use
- install the appropiate KDE language packs
- install the right input engine (i used chewing for chinese)
Thank you for your answer. I did all of these recommendations and also some others - as I wrote, I was successful to set up Skim (Japanese input) in some other distributions, Gentoo, Kubuntu and SUSE. But not in Arch. That's why I wonder if there is anybody with working Skim in Arch.
The weird thing with arch/skim is that i had to change my system locale if i wanted to use skim... I have a german system and when i had to use skim, i changed the locales to zh_TW and reboot... After doing that, skim worked for me...
I'm afraid this is definitely not the way Skim is supposed to work (I don't have to reboot in Kubuntu or in Gentoo to input Japanese).
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I have found some relevant messages about 1 year old: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 08873.html
The relevant passage seems to be http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 08888.html:
the problem with kde is that it uses qt and our qt3 does not contain
the qt-im-module so the only way kde works with scim/skim is by using
XIM and not qt. most kde-apps unfortunately don't know how to use XIM
but try qt-im-module instead that is missing.
So I suppose I will look for qt-im-module and qt3.
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Perhaps this wiki page can help you:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scim
There is a section at the very bottom regarding KDE. Hope this helps!
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I just installed Skim with Japanese, seems to be working. I followed the Wiki entry.
What I did extra was to generate the Japanese locale using locale-gen. Maybe you forgot to generate the fitting locale so it doesn't work?
Some PKGBUILDs: http://members.lycos.co.uk/sweiss3
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