Re: Chinese input in Redhat 9

From: marblespurs (abc_at_abc.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:38:33 +0800

J.O. Aho wrote:
> marblespurs wrote:
>
>> I am using Redhat 9. I have installed the xcin version 2.5.3-pre2 as
>> the chinese input server.
>>
>> I have a problem to do the chinese input. I can input chinese in some
>> of the client like mozilla v. 1.2.1 and licq. But... I cannot input
>> chinese in mozilla v 1.6 and also the terminal.
>
> >
>
>> The situation is that I cannot use the Ctrl+space key to trigger out
>> the input bar. But I can do so when I use mozilla 1.2.1 or licq.
>>
>> Why...?? Thanks for your help.
>
>
> The bug in the system is named GTK2, it interupts the ctrl-space and
> ctrl-shift key combinations. I do suggest you move away from Gnome2, as
> it's not suted to work well with many programs that has those above
> mentioned key combinations (Gnome2 is based on GTK2).
>
> Use KDE or Gnome (version 1.4 is quite good and there is antialias for
> GTK+), or any other none GTK2 based windowsmanager/desktop.
>
> This will solve most the stuff except Mozilla which under RedHat/Fedora
> is compaled with the GTK2 toolkit, which allows GTK2 interrupt once more.
> There used to be a QT toolkit, but that has been removed from later
> versions of Mozilla :(
> I suggest you recompile Mozilla with the gtk toolkit, this makes the
> buttons and listers, checkbox and radiobuttons and such to look a little
> less nice, but you get a fully working chinese input.
>
> Don't sit and wait that they will fix GTK2, this has been a known bug
> for a long long time and they haven't done a sh*t about it.
>
>
>
> //Aho

That's too bad...
actually I am not sure if this is caused by the bug or not, coz if I
login the session using Traditional chinese environment, I can type in
Chinese without problem, even in mozilla 1.6 and the terminal... This
makes me confused...

I have tried another ad-hoc method... to modify the keystroke for
chinese input in the 'xcinrc' file... change the keystroke such that I
do not use ctrl-space to switch input... But it seems it does not have
any effect at all...

I ask so because I prefer to work in English environment, but sometimes
I need to type some chinese characters. So if the problem is solved, it
should be perfect to me!

- marblespurs