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    Enabling Japanese input

    Hello all. I have just installed Kubuntu 9.04 on a Dell "Studio 15". It certainly looks very slick. Trouble is, I can't quite see how to activate Japanese input.

    In "Regional & Language - System Settings | Country/Region and Language" I have "US English" and "Japanese": to the best of my knowledge, I've both "added" and "installed" Japanese. (Though I have to confess that I don't know what this means.) At one stage in this the computer downloaded and installed a number of packages, and wanted rebooting; no error message during any of that.

    I expect to see some mention of "SCIM" and/or "Anthy" somewhere. (That is or those are what I've seen on older (K)Ubuntu systems.) Can't see it/them anywhere.

    In "Regional & Language - System Settings | Keyboard Layout", nothing seems obviously relevant. There are two "Japanese keyboard options" but the first appears to be for a keyboard whose hardware has a Japanese layout (mine doesn't) and the second is inscrutable. There's "Key(s) to change layout" which to me sounds like something to switch between QWERTY and AZERTY or similar; thinking that it might be misnamed for what I wanted, I set it to Right-Alt, but this doesn't obviously do anything.

    What I don't see anywhere is "Key(s) to toggle FEP/IME" or similar.

    Shift-Space (which worked on an old Kubuntu system) does nothing, Ctrl-Space (which works on Ubuntu 8.04) does nothing ... what have I forgotten?

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    Re: Enabling Japanese input

    Have you seen/looked at "HOWTO: Installing Japanese Input & Font Setup in Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) - SKIM" on http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099856.0
    "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles F. Kettering
    "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."--Dr. Seuss

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      #3
      Re: Enabling Japanese input

      No, I hadn't seen that. Thanks for the tip.

      Right now I'm at home and using my (effortlessly Japanese-enabled, small, quiet, cool) Ubuntu machine, while my (brand new, big, noisy, hot) Kubuntu machine sleeps in my office. I'll be back there all too soon and then I'll reread the message to which you kindly link.

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        #4
        Re: Enabling Japanese input

        Originally posted by arochester
        Have you seen/looked at "HOWTO: Installing Japanese Input & Font Setup in Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) - SKIM" on http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099856.0
        I've looked.

        It assumes I'm using Adept, but I find that I'm using KPackageKit. I vaguely remember having read somewhere that it's not a good idea to use more than one installer, so I'm reluctant to experiment with Adept and I'm unfamiliar with KPackageKit. Still, I've got Universe and Multiverse turned on for the latter.

        "Also, you need the Japanese repository too. Open the repositories list file:"

        I find that hard to believe that this is necessary. But I'm game. The example given is

        deb http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja intrepid/

        I go to deb http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja and see that the only jauntiness thereabouts is http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja/jaunty-non-free . However, the stuff I need most urgently is definitely free (as in both beer and speech).

        I thought I might have already installed SCIM/SKIM and so hopefully tried

        im-switch -s skim

        as recommended. However, I was told: "no configuration file 'skim' exists."

        Oh dear. I'm still lost.

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          #5
          Re: Enabling Japanese input

          Fixed! Thanks to a very informative message (2 April 09) by Zorael within the thread "First Impression Jaunty/ Kubuntu 9.04" (now closed) at Ubuntu forums.

          If Ubuntu forums allowed mod points, I'd shower handfuls on Zorael.

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