~/.i18n contains: GTK_IM_MODULE=scim XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d" XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM With scim-1.2.3, these settings work and pressing ctrl+space displays the input method popup. With any later version of scim, I can only get the input method to activate by typing GTK_IM_MODULE=scim on the terminal before the command. Actually, scim-1.4.2 used to work properly, but stopped at some point (I think it may have been an emerge update to X). I'm not sure if there's a global file somewhere overwriting the settings. Every installation guide seems to store the settings in a different file (.bashrc, .xinitrc...), and I can't tell what sources .i18n. Since scim-1.4.2 hasn't always had this problem, I'll include my 'emerge --info' in case that helps: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gent oo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 142 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/ 3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://rsync.quad4.org/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.quad4.org/portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acl alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bz ip2 canna cdr cjk crypt cups divx4linux dvd eds emboss encode ethereal exif expa t fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg junit lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lua mad mhash m ikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl php png posix python quicktime readline recode ruby samba s dl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis wmf xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon userland_G NU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
maybe it is because ~/.i18n support has been removed in X. i can't get it to work either. the workaround would be to put it in .xinitrc or .xsession. that is what i used to do as i can't find any reference to ~/.i18n anywhere. can you point me to any documentation that says it is supported?
Hmm...looks like the docs I found that in turned out to be Mandriva specific. Guess i'll put it in my .xinitrc... Does 1.2.3 work with .i18n for you? I can unmerge the recent version and merge the old one and it either uses ~/.i18n or loads GTK_IM_MODULE, etc. from somewhere else.
i can't find any reference to .i18n in scim-1.2.3. so i suspect it is an X specific thing rather than scim.
anyway, i'm going to close this bug as it doesn't seem to be anything wrong with scim. thanks for the report.
