Hello!
I'm a bit knowledgeable about Kubuntu but not quite an expert yet. A long time ago I had Kubuntu 10.x and I had found how to install and configure the Japanese IME on it. Some time later, I installed Kubuntu 11.x from scratch but I could never install the Japanese IME for the same reason that I can't now on 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). I greatly appreciate if someone can help me to get it running. Note: The 12.04 installation is from scratch too. It's running very smoothly (I love how much faster it is), but the Japanese IME is the one thing I can't get right.
On 10.x I first had gone to System Settings -> Locale -> System Languages -> Set System Language -> English (United States) and Keyboard input method (on the lower right corner) set to "ibus" and "Apply". (On 12.04 I have had to use Muon to install "ibus" and restart the computer before I could see it on this menu.)
Then, I would go from there to the "Install" tab and select "Japanese"... on 10.x I would check "Input methods" and "Apply" but on 12.04 it's grayed out... how do I make it available???
There are a few things I want to mention that may help the troubleshooting. Back then I noticed that I had to UN-install one of the following two: ibus-gtk or ibus-qt4 (I forgot which is the correct one) and restart and only THEN would I get the ibus icon on the "task manager bar" at the bottom of the screen from which I could configure the Japanese IME. I think the problem was that Ubuntu would use one of the files and Kubuntu the other but for some reason both were installed and the conflict made it so that one could not access the ibus user interface. On 12.04 I checked just now (via Muon) that ibus-qt4 is installed and ibus-gtk isn't but the "Input methods" checkbox is grayed out nonetheless. Also, I had tried other non-ibus IMEs and none of them worked. SCIM didn't work either. Also, I've seen someone somewhere else on the Internet mention that one could go to System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Configure layouts to add a new keyboard layout. That's fine... and it's something that I may want to do in the future... but right now I want only the IME. For those of you who don't know, the IME lets me keep my English keyboard and type roman alphabet letters so that they can be converted to Japanese (I think via Alt-Spacebar? I forget... but that's after I can access the IME); whereas the layout configuration thing would give the keyboard the ability to act as a Japanese keyboard... which as I said, I'd love to learn about in the future, just not now.
If you've managed to read all that... thank you. Now if someone could tell me what to do on Precise Pangolin I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks again.
P.S. I know that there are quite a few Japanese-using Kubuntu users out there... if you know the solution or none of the solutions presented in this thread work for you... please post here! Thank you.
I'm a bit knowledgeable about Kubuntu but not quite an expert yet. A long time ago I had Kubuntu 10.x and I had found how to install and configure the Japanese IME on it. Some time later, I installed Kubuntu 11.x from scratch but I could never install the Japanese IME for the same reason that I can't now on 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). I greatly appreciate if someone can help me to get it running. Note: The 12.04 installation is from scratch too. It's running very smoothly (I love how much faster it is), but the Japanese IME is the one thing I can't get right.
On 10.x I first had gone to System Settings -> Locale -> System Languages -> Set System Language -> English (United States) and Keyboard input method (on the lower right corner) set to "ibus" and "Apply". (On 12.04 I have had to use Muon to install "ibus" and restart the computer before I could see it on this menu.)
Then, I would go from there to the "Install" tab and select "Japanese"... on 10.x I would check "Input methods" and "Apply" but on 12.04 it's grayed out... how do I make it available???
There are a few things I want to mention that may help the troubleshooting. Back then I noticed that I had to UN-install one of the following two: ibus-gtk or ibus-qt4 (I forgot which is the correct one) and restart and only THEN would I get the ibus icon on the "task manager bar" at the bottom of the screen from which I could configure the Japanese IME. I think the problem was that Ubuntu would use one of the files and Kubuntu the other but for some reason both were installed and the conflict made it so that one could not access the ibus user interface. On 12.04 I checked just now (via Muon) that ibus-qt4 is installed and ibus-gtk isn't but the "Input methods" checkbox is grayed out nonetheless. Also, I had tried other non-ibus IMEs and none of them worked. SCIM didn't work either. Also, I've seen someone somewhere else on the Internet mention that one could go to System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> Configure layouts to add a new keyboard layout. That's fine... and it's something that I may want to do in the future... but right now I want only the IME. For those of you who don't know, the IME lets me keep my English keyboard and type roman alphabet letters so that they can be converted to Japanese (I think via Alt-Spacebar? I forget... but that's after I can access the IME); whereas the layout configuration thing would give the keyboard the ability to act as a Japanese keyboard... which as I said, I'd love to learn about in the future, just not now.
If you've managed to read all that... thank you. Now if someone could tell me what to do on Precise Pangolin I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks again.
P.S. I know that there are quite a few Japanese-using Kubuntu users out there... if you know the solution or none of the solutions presented in this thread work for you... please post here! Thank you.
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