Inputting Hindi Text In Gentoo [solved]

rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

Om, I have a question. What do you mean by starting the X server with startx. I did not quite get that part.

Rahul

P.S. Nice example for the half letter though.

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OmSai · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject:

When your computer boots up, goes past the kernel, initializes all the services and then finally arrives at the shell prompt, the X server has to be started up.

That is what the command startx does.
A fair explanation is here
You may not notice startx because if you have a login manager installed like kdm or gdm, it takes care of executing it for you.

Now you faced the problem of an unresponsive SCIM taskbar icon, because the SCIM variables in ~/.xinitrc were not exported before all the X programs of your Window manager (Gnome, right?) started launching.
That problem in fact affects both Gnome and KDE since they don't call ~/.xinitrc but use their own session managers as the startx link above explains.

...Sooooo... instead of ~/.xinitrc, put the environment variables in /etc/profiles.d/scim.sh
That way the variables are set globally, as soon as you login, and before X is launched.
I've updated the gentoo-wiki to reflect that change.
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OmSai · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject:

cjubon,

Whenever you get the change, could you please install and review app-i18n/skim - the KDE optimized SCIM?
I came across it in the scim wiki.

I'm thinking maybe you could review it for the wiki

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rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

Works now, thanks a lot!

धन्यवाद
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rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

Om, I guess it is time to mark the thread as solved, since you have figured out how to do this and even written a wiki for it. What say?
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OmSai · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:00 am Post subject:

हांजी, बेशक!

Yes, go for it (for our English readers)
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Gentoo is the stick-shift of Linux.
You work it manually, it has somewhat better performance, but it's really for the fun of it.

rahulthewall · Veteran Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 1264 Location: Zürich

आपकी इच्छा सर आंखो पर ।

Translated as, your wish is my command. (that is the closest I could come)
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trumee · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 551 Location: London,UK

Just to add I had to use "GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge firefox" to have hindi support in firefox.