[SCIM] Help getting scim to run on Debian

[Zhengzhu Feng]

Hi all!

I am searching for a Chinese input solution in Linux and come across 
this project, which looks very promising. However I am having some 
problem getting it to run correctly. I am running Debian 
testing/unstable mixed. Here is what I did:

1. download scim-0.9.6 as well as scim-tables-0.3.5. no problem 
compiling/installing.
2. open an xterm, and run scim. seems fine, but it failed to load the 
socket server module. here is the output:

fengzz at x31:~$ scim
Smart Common Input Method 0.9.6

Loading simple Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading Server module: rawcode ...
    Loading Server Factory 0 ... : OK
rawcode Server module is successfully loaded.
Loading Server module: socket ...
Failed to load socket Server module.
Loading Server module: table ...
    Loading Server Factory 0 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 1 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 2 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 3 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 4 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 5 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 6 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 7 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 8 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 9 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 10 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 11 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 12 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 13 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 14 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 15 ... : OK
    Loading Server Factory 16 ... : OK
table Server module is successfully loaded.
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
Starting SCIM ...

3. open another xterm, and do
   export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gb2312; export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
   (I am using bash)
4. run some program in this xterm, say crxvt-gb. within crxvt-gb, I can 
activate the input panel by "ctrl-shift"; I can type some letter to get 
a list of Chinese characters; but when I choose one of them by pressing 
a number key, I get no Chinese character in the crxvt-gb window (as if I 
typed in nothing). I tried mozilla as well as emacs, they all behave the 
same. On the other hand, I can get xcin to work correctly with these 
applications.

another observation in this case: if I turn off the input panel by 
"ctrl-shift" again, I can type in English letter as normal. But each key 
I pressed, I got a "scim_x11_ic.cpp(373):Unknown attr: inputStyle" 
message from the consol running scim.

Thanks for your help!

-zhengzhu