Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Irihapeti]

Puppyiso:
What happens when you open Geany or OpenOffice or Leafpad and press ctrl-space? If scim is working properly, the input method panel should appear.

Scim has two configuration files: /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules and /root/.xinitrc (You'll need to show hidden files to see the last one.) Do you have both of these on your system. If they are in different places, that would be one reason for things not working.

It could be worth trying a standard version of Puppy first, and getting scim to work on that. The font file and the four scim packages should be all that you need.

Actually, I've just remembered that gconv4dingo was needed for some forms of Japanese input in Puppy 4. You could try installing that, if you are using a version based on Puppy 4. It's on puppylinux.asia, in the same place as the other files.

[puppyiso]

As you can see in the attached image, the files do exist.

I cannot find the keyboard icon nor the selection icon in Gnome window.

Tried ctrl+space bar, shift+space bar nothing works.

It is too bad that I have to leave my computer next 8 days or so.

When I comeback, I will try again with "regular" puppies.

Thank you for your help.

John S

[Irihapeti]

[puppyiso]

I am in different city with someone else's computer given to me to use temporarily. I don't have the files I downloaded from the puppylinux.asia site.

When I revisited the site, I found the site has exceeded its bandwidth limit.

Well, I guess I have to wait till July.

Or if you give me the file names and I will try to find them on the internet. (but of course puppylinux.ca first)

Those got to be somewhere.

John

[Irihapeti]

Hi Puppyiso

The files you need are now on www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti and they are:

scim-1.4.7-i486.pet
scim-bridge-0.4.15-i486.pet
libhangul-0.0.9-i486.pet
scim-hangul-0.3.2-i486.pet

It's best not to use .pet packages from other sources, because they are often compiled differently, and that adds yet another possible source of frustration.

I have tested the hangul packages in Puppy 4.2 (with the replacement gtk+ packages) and it's working. I suggest starting with a standard Puppy, get that working, and then add the other features such as Gnome.

Puppylinux.ca still allowed me to download at the time of this post, by the way.

[puppyiso]

Success!!!!

I missed the bridge file.

Now it works. The next is the menu.

Thank Thank Thank you, Irihapeti

Finally!!!!

John S

[Irihapeti]

Puppyiso:

That is great news!

All the best with the rest of your project.

Irihapeti

[puppyiso]

I tried Chinese today but there was NO correct pinying input.

None was correct.

Please check the Chinese input. The screen you see is with Gnome clothes on.

John

[Irihapeti]

Puppyiso:

It looks as though you only have Scim-tables installed, which doesn't include pinyin. Scim-m17n (and you'll need the other two m17n packages as well) has some pinyin options.

The other choice is scim-pinyin (智能拼音), which is quite popular. That's just a single package download. When it's installed, it shows up in the scim menu as 智

Hope that helps.

Irihapeti

[Irihapeti]

你们好， 我的朋友 － Hello, friends

I have compiled new versions of Scim, Scim-bridge, Scim-tables and Scim-m17n (plus the lib and db files). They have been uploaded to

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti/
and
http://www.puppylinux.asia/members/Irihapeti/ (You will need username: puppy, password: linux for this site.)

I can't get the QT3 and QT4 scim-bridge drivers to compile (so what's new?), but the existing QT drivers seem to work fine anyway, even with the later versions of scim and scim-bridge.

Regards
Irihapeti

[pacchiee]

Irihapeti,

Good work! Does the newer versions still require libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.1 to be replaced or have you included it in the package?

[Irihapeti]

[levian]

hi Irihapeti,
i was trying to install scim-pinyin into my puppy 4.2.1,
that includes installing

scim-1.4.7-i486.pet
scim-bridge-0.4.15-i486.pet
scim-pinyin-0.5.91-i486.pet

n more tables n files that were found in /members/Irihapeti/ which i eventually got lost. both geany n leafpad doesn't give me any reactions. nor with cltr+space. i even tried reinstalling my puppy to get the scim to work, but it still doesn't. what should i do next? please help.

i am able to read some chinese fonts though.

[Irihapeti]

levian:

For some further instructions, look here: http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/localization/technical-how-tos/setting-puppy-multi-lingual-operation-beginner-friendly-method and
http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/multi-lingual-puppy/technical-how-tos/getting-scim-working-after-its-installed

You shouldn't need to reinstall Puppy but you do need to restart the x-server, or reboot.

If you want a good display of Chinese characters, install wenquanyi bitmap font. The instructions are here: http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/multi-lingual-puppy/technical-how-tos/installing-fonts

[Aitch]

Hi Irihapeti

How you keeping?

Just a quick reminder, requests have been made to move your/everybody, that is - files from

http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki

to the new site/hosting - I think [pm prit1 for confirmation]

see

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage

and

http://www.puppylinux.org/news/

Aitch