SCIM works in Firefox and Thunderbird only

[lotech]

I installed SCIM for Chinese input, but it only works on FF and TB, I can't bring up the input toolbar in any other apps I don't know why.

[Husse]

There are lots of posts about the opposite of your experience....
Have you installed chinese locales

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sudo apt-get install locales

or in case it's installed but not in use

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

[lotech]

Thanks, I done that already but only works in FF and TB also Kompozer but no others, ctrl-sp does not trigger the language change on them I forgot to mention.

[Michal77]

Hi,
You need install all packages with scim-bradge and all with language-selector (in Synaptic).
Them change entry in scim setup:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim

and change:

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

for

GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"

for more details or KDE users check:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM
if scim will not show-up start it manually in terminal:

scim-bridge

I've tested it in Ubuntu 7.04 7.10 and in Mint 5.0.
Good luck!