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

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 05:20 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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

sorry ... you already have it all installed (I now see from your
post) :)

> 
> 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.

This might help you ... if you read through all the followups:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-i18n-list/2004-August/msg00010.html
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