Anybody familiar with it, or what it's needed for? I've got at least one user (it's *very* noticeable with her) whose system is spamming /var/log/messages, to the effect of "Another agent is running...\nFailed to allocate the agent. Exitting" (complete with misspelled exiting).
In googling, I've seen someone just removing the package. What, if anything, would that break?
Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1
mark
On 09/06/11 1:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Anybody familiar with it, or what it's needed for? I've got at least one user (it's *very* noticeable with her) whose system is spamming /var/log/messages, to the effect of "Another agent is running...\nFailed to allocate the agent. Exitting" (complete with misspelled exiting).
In googling, I've seen someone just removing the package. What, if anything, would that break?
Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1
# yum info scim-bridge ... Available Packages Name : scim-bridge Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.4.5 Release : 9.el5 Size : 111 k Repo : base Summary : SCIM Bridge Gtk IM module URL : http://www.scim-im.org/projects/scim_bridge License : LGPL Description: SCIM Bridge is a C implementation of a Gtk IM module for SCIM.
from browsing that URL, it appears IM in this context means Input Method, and SCIM is some kind of generic Smart Common Input Method editor, for which SCIM-Bridge is a Gtk(Gnome) shim of some sorts.
looks like its mostly for far eastern languages.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 09/06/11 1:43 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Anybody familiar with it, or what it's needed for? I've got at least one user (it's *very* noticeable with her) whose system is spamming /var/log/messages, to the effect of "Another agent is running...\nFailed to allocate the agent. Exitting" (complete with misspelled exiting).
In googling, I've seen someone just removing the package. What, if anything, would that break?
Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1
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from browsing that URL, it appears IM in this context means Input Method, and SCIM is some kind of generic Smart Common Input Method editor, for which SCIM-Bridge is a Gtk(Gnome) shim of some sorts.
looks like its mostly for far eastern languages.
Yeah, from the last stuff I've found, looks like it's for her to read Chinese. I've seen some suggestions, and if they don't work (xim?), I'll talk to her about what we can do.
Thanks!
mark
On 09/06/11 2:31 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
looks like its mostly for far eastern languages.
Yeah, from the last stuff I've found, looks like it's for her to read Chinese. I've seen some suggestions, and if they don't work (xim?), I'll talk to her about what we can do.
as an Input Method, I would think it would strictly be for ENTERING(typing) Chinese etc. and, it is only needed if another package you need specifically calls for it. xim provides a similar functionality but not in a compatible manner. scim-bridge requires scim and scim-libs. I can't tell you what other packages require scim or scim-libs as I don't have any of those installed.
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:31:48PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah, from the last stuff I've found, looks like it's for her to read Chinese. I've seen some suggestions, and if they don't work (xim?), I'll talk to her about what we can do.
Scim is being replaced by ibus. It should be available on CentOS-6, though I don't think I ever got it to build on CentOS 5.
Yes, it's frequently used for Eastern languages--I use it to input Japanese. It isn't necessary to read Chinese, for that, all she would need would be fonts.
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:43 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Anybody familiar with it, or what it's needed for? I've got at least one user (it's *very* noticeable with her) whose system is spamming /var/log/messages, to the effect of "Another agent is running...\nFailed to allocate the agent. Exitting" (complete with misspelled exiting).
In googling, I've seen someone just removing the package. What, if anything, would that break?
Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1
---- on Fedora, I ditched scim for ibus - much better and much more recent development... my wife is Chinese so it is of interest to me.
I don't have CentOS 6 installed anywhere, maybe never will. You probably want to check for ibus and use that instead of scim.
Craig
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:44:39PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1
on Fedora, I ditched scim for ibus - much better and much more recent development... my wife is Chinese so it is of interest to me.
I don't have CentOS 6 installed anywhere, maybe never will. You probably want to check for ibus and use that instead of scim.
In my earlier reply I missed the CentOS 5.6 part. I didn't try all that hard, but I wasn't able to build ibus on it--it needed some newer somethings---glibc?
It is available for CentOS 6.x however.
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