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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050813/f6a4ef3d/attachment-0004.sig>