[CentOS] httx, iiimf, and Japanese input still not working

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Sun Aug 7 10:20:28 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:52 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Japanese input - the final frontier. This is the last obstacle before I 
> can work completely within Centos and be free of Windows.
> But it's still not working.
> 
> To cut to the chase, in my quest to get Japanese working, I came across 
> the following:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-i18n-list/2004-November/msg00030.html
> ... where someone says:
> "You need to have httx (htt_xbe) running to use iiimf in KDE."
> 
> Okay, so I go looking on the net for httx, but can't quite figure out 
> what it is or how to download it.
> 
> So my question is what is it, where do I get it, and will it help me get 
> Japanese input?
> 
> Now, for anyone who needs a reference, what follows is how I came to 
> find out about httx.
> 
> I was following the instructions on this page:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html
> 
> And here are the results of some of the commands they suggest to check 
> if iiimf is running in KDE:
> 
> [root at localhost dave]# service iiim status
> htt (pid 3193) is running...
> 
> [root at localhost dave]# rpm -qa |grep iiimf
> iiimf-csconv-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-43
> iiimf-libs-devel-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-libs-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-gtk-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-client-lib-11.4-43
> iiimf-x-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-gnome-im-switcher-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-le-unit-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-43
> iiimf-server-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-le-canna-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-docs-12.1-13.EL
> iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-43
> 
> [root at localhost dave]# ps auxwww | grep httx
> root      4433  0.0  0.2  5272  664 pts/4    S+   18:38   0:00 grep httx
> 
> [root at localhost dave]# LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 XMODIFIERS=@im=htt kedit
> QInputContext: no input method context available
> QInputContext: no input method context available
> 
> When I went to Google to look up this error, that's when I eventually 
> came across httx, but that's where I was stonewalled.
> 
> I hope someone can help me get this last piece of the puzzle in place.
> 
Do this to get httx on your machine:

yum install iiimf-docs iiimf-x

Here is the help it installs:

/usr/share/doc/IIIM/index.html

and

/usr/share/doc/IIIM/cmds/httx.html

I don't know any more about it than that ... I have never used iiimf.
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