[CentOS] How can I make these command prompt settings into universal settings?

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 05:40 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:15 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > 
> > I've got it so that I can enable Japanese input into an application by 
> > typing the following at a command prompt (with FireFox, for example):
> > [dave at localhost ~]$ kinput2 -canna &
> > [1] 10631
> > [dave at localhost ~]$ XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2' LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8 firefox
> > 
> > However, I would rather not have to type in all that craziness each time 
> > I want to start an application. Further, instead of having to configure 
> > each application individually, it would be better to have this setting 
> > just on all the time for every application, both existing and new.
> > 
> > I was under the impression this was possible. Following advice gained 
> > elswhere, I thought I could put the following into /etc/X11/Xresources:
> > ! Japanese Input
> > #!/bin/sh
> > XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2' LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
> > kinput2 -canna &
> > 
> > But doing so results in Japanese input not being available for any 
> > application.
> > 
> > I'm using KDE, and I learned that I should be able to put any shell 
> > script in the ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory and have it launch on start. 
> > So I put a file there called j-input.sh, changed it's permissions with 
> > chmod 755, and put the same commands that I had in Xresources.
> > 
> > But still no result.
> > 
> > Long story short: How do I get these command line settings to be 
> > permanently on:
> > XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2' LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
> > kinput2 -canna &
> > 
> 
> You should be able to put this in your (the user you login as)
> ~/.bash_profile:
> 
> export XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2'
> export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
> /usr/X11R6/bin/kinput2 -canna &
> 
> If that works, and if you need them for all users, you can later move
> them to a file named ja-support in /etc/profile.d/
> 
> -------------
> 
> That might not be the best solution though.
> 
> I don't know how iiimf works ... but I notice that there are plenty of
> files in /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d for
> CentOS-4 that are related to iiimf, there has to be another way to make
> it autoload.
> 
> 

With a little more research, I found:

Main Menu Button [on the Panel] => Preferences => More Preferences =>
Sessions

There is some good help in there concerning running things with X
startup.

Also see this:
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/html/rhel-rg-en-4/s1-x-runlevels.html
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