HELP: Ibus + LibreOffice + Japanese input

[allaurus]

Hello everyone!

I'm new on the forum and new on Kubuntu, though I've been using Ubuntu for a while.
My problem is that I need to input Japanese with LibreOffice and after installing ibus and make it work with Kate, I saw that it doesn't work at all with LibreOffice, nor with Firefox.
Can someone help, please?
Thanks a lot!

[bra|10n]

Hopefully something from the following links may help you out;

http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/.../msg04447.html

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ex...-learning-tool

and this link with a small chance it may hold package(s) you might need https://launchpad.net/~createsc/+arc...beol/+packages

[allaurus]

Thank you for your answer!
The first link I have already read and it does not help. I did all that it says there and no result.
The second link concerns the JILT extension, very useful but not for input.
As for the third link, which of the packages should I instal. I already have ibus and dependencies for Japanese input.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks again!

[whatthefunk]

Interesting....I just checked my system which has Japanese input installed and I also can not type Japanese in Libre Office. I get little squares for everything. Do you get the same result? Ill look into this and see if I cant find a solution.

EDIT: Got mine to work. In Libre Office, did you set all the options in Tool > Options > Language Settings to Japanese?

[allaurus]

No, actually nothing happens!
Normally when pressing CTRL+space it is possible to chose the input language. Worked fine in Ubuntu with openoffice and scim. But ibus doesn't seem to work.
I only can make it work in Kate and in Rekonq.

[whatthefunk]

According to this thread over at opensuse:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...scim-ibus.html

If you add this bit of code to your .bashrc, you might be able to get it to work.

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde

[allaurus]

Ok, thanks for the solution!
I would like to do the changes you suggested but as I have never modified this .bashrc, I would really appreciate a step by step method to do it.
I hope you don't mind!

[whatthefunk]

No problem.

Open a terminal. It should open in your home folder. Type

sudo nano .bashrc

This will open the nano editor. Use the arrow keys to scroll down to the bottom of the file and paste in the code above:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde

Hit Ctrl + x to save. I think you have to hit "y" once and then enter.

Reboot.

Hopefully that works!

[allaurus]

No, it does not work!
It changed nothing at all.
Still impossible to input in LO, though ibus works when writing in Kate, as I said.
What can be wrong?
Thanks for helping me, man!

EDIT: I have done the changes in LO that you suggested in thread #4. Still nothing.
I really need that Japanese input in LO.

[whatthefunk]

Hmmm....some other ideas:

Guy in this thread (post #30) added the Libre Office ppa and updated to the newest version:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...ml#post2313341
Keep in mind that he used the opensuse repos. To do the same with Ubuntu/Kubuntu add this to your software sources in Muon Package Manager:
ppa:libreoffice/ppa
After you do that, update.

Guy here did something similar to what we did above, but directed it to GNOME instead of KDE. Dont know how that would work out honestly...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112433

This guy installed libreoffice-gtk
http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.p...h-libreoffice/

The guy in this thread removed Libre Office KDE and installed Libre Office GNOME.
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...se-12-1-a.html

This seems to be some kind of KDE compatibility problem. Id start at the top of this list and work through them until one works

[allaurus]

Hello again!

I did it. I followed this :
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla...g.cgi?id=34016

After getting rid of libreoffice-kde package and installed libreoffice-gnome, it still didn't work.

Actually what really worked (in my case, at least) was to edit ~/ .profile

as follows:

export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus"
export QT_IM_MODULE="ibus"

OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome"

As for ~/.bashrc

I still have it edited as:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome"

Now, everything works just fine. I can write Japanese even in firefox.
Great!
Thanks again for all the help, man! ありがとうございます。

[whatthefunk]

Glad you got it working!