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• The followings are for GTK/QT_IM_MODULE with scim ((ie, GTK_IM_MODULE=scim), if you prefer to set GT/QT_IM_MODULE with xim, please refer XIM mode below.
• Dapper's method : This is automatically set for CJK languages if you choose one of them at installation.
  • scim in Dapper is supported by im-switch. /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim file looks like

    # im-switch configuration file for scim    # should be installed as /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim    # this configuration uses GTK IM module and Qt IM module provided by SCIM    # exported enviroment variables    XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"    GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"    QT_IM_MODULE="scim"    # command and arguments to invoke scim    XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/scim"    XIM_ARGS="--daemon"    # package dependency (note that the format used here is not environment    # variable, but some format for libapt-pkg-perl and is parsed by grep,    # so can't be quoted, and no spaces allowed)    DEPENDS=scim-gtk2-immodule,scim-qtimm

    , and this setup is called by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90im-switch .

• scim-im.org's method : create 75scim file under /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ with following lines
  (if you have 90im-switch, better to remove it for this setup)

  export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"    export XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/scim -d"    export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim    export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

  
  
• User own setup (User-B and User-C in below need one of these.)
  • With im-switch installed, type im-switch command in the usage of "im-switch [-z <YOUR_LANG>] -s <INPUT_METHOD>" at the terminal prompt (do not with root) so it looks like, for example, :

    im-switch -z en_US -s scim-hangul

    which creates ~/.xinput.d/en_US link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim .

  • Without im-switch installed (do one of these upon your situation or preference)
    1. System-wide : same as scim-im.org's method
    2. Of course, you can create a link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim by hand (do not with root) like this

       ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/default

       or (use your LANG instead)

       ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim ~/.xinput.d/en_US

       
       
    3. For gnome desktop, create (or add) the following lines to ~/.gnomerc file

       export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"    export XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim -d    export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim    export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

       
       
    4. For kde desktop
    5. If you want to use skim under Gnome desktop, your ~/.scim/global file should have "/DefaultConfigModule = kconfig" and "/DefaultPanelProgram = /usr/bin/scim-panel-kde" so it looks like:

       /DefaultConfigModule = kconfig    /DefaultKeyboardLayout = US_Default    /DefaultPanelProgram = /usr/bin/scim-panel-kde    /SupportedUnicodeLocales = en_US.UTF-8

       
       
• After your setup, restart at least your X session. (ctrl-alt-backspace!)

Users

• User-A : Users use one of CJK locales (zh_CN.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8, ja_JP.UTF-8, ko_KR.UTF-8, zh_HK.UTF-8)
  
• User-B : Users use en_US.UTF-8
  
• User-C : Users use one of other locales than en_US.UTF-8 and CJK locales