bbqasian and related [resolved]

[orionthehunter]

Trying to get my input methods working right for Japanese.

I may have done this redundantly, but I'll just say what I did anyway.

First I apt-get installed ibus, ibus-gtk, anthy and related.

Then I tried to apt-get install im-config, im-switch (didn't work, apparently they dont exist in the default repos)

Then I followed Bacon's bbqmenu -> add asian language support directions.

I now have ibus and anthy anyway... but I don't have the configuration utility to set up keyboard shortcuts for switching input methods.

[machinebacon]

There will be the ibus icon if you log out and back. But before, you also need both ibus interfaces:

ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3

(btw, im-config and im-switch are there in the repos, though they neutralize each other. Go for im-config, and be sure you have used the 'upg' command to bring yourself in sync with the repos)

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sudo apt-get install -y ibus ibus-gtk ibus-anthy im-config xfonts-wqy ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho && ibus-daemon 

(of course fonts are optional)

[orionthehunter]

ooo... I just started a dist-upgrade. I didn't know about the "upg" command.

[orionthehunter]

Those fonts btw, are horrible. They're really out of whack with modern Japanese writing, I kinda wish they'd disappear from the repos.

IPAfonts and VLGothic are far better defaults.

[machinebacon]

Was just an idea. -> http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/e ... s_and_mozc

[orionthehunter]

I think my troubles were repo related... we'll see if I can get it all sorted out.

[machinebacon]

I guess so - the Debian repos are recently shakey, especially when using their reflector (http.debian.net), so maybe you want to change to a local server or retry later again.

I've just used bbqasian on a fresh install and it worked perfectly, the ibus selector icon is added during the installation and after logout/login it can be used for text input fields, so no worries :)

[orionthehunter]

For some reason when I right click the ibus daemon sys tray icon, and select Preferences, I get nothing.

No output if I run ibus-daemon from a terminal either... ideas?

[machinebacon]

Let's force it:

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 im-config ibus-anthy

As next check if the daemon is up:

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ibus-daemon

And

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im-config

Maybe something got lost with the shakey repos.

[orionthehunter]

was missing zenity. Apparently its not a dependency for im-config... but it is.

And still no joy with the preferences menu.

It's really odd that I get no output, and it doesn't crash. Sounds like a bug to me, but I don't know what's causing it. I may try to uninstall the bits and re--install one by one.

[orionthehunter]

uninstalling and re-installing one by one did the trick. I dunno wtf got messed up, but yes it would seem it was something to do with package management.

On the way to perfection.

Gotta go take some photos for wallpapers ;-)