[SCIM] Pinyin and Tables disappeared from the menu.

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  I wonder why "scim -f socket -ne socket -c simple -d" can not work.
Maybe there is a bug in scim or scim-uim. Could you please rm -fr
~/.scim then try again?

Regards
James Su

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:51:55 +0900, Yukiko Bando <ybando at k6.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > I just noticed that, you used "scim -f sokcet -e uim,m17n -c simple
> > -d" to start scim background daemon. But the option "-e uim,m17n"
> > tells scim to only load uim and m17n module. Then of course pinyin and
> > all table based module won't be loaded.
> > So if you want to load all modules, just use the command "scim -f
> > socket -ne socket -c simple -d" to start scim background daemon.
> 
> Oh, I see...  I didn't really understand what those options were about, but
> the detailed explanation in your reply to David helped a lot.  Thank you!  I
> think I'm beginning to get the hang of SCIM. ;)
> 
> Actually, though, "scim -f socket -ne socket -c simple -d" doesn't seem to
> work properly with UIM.  The command returns this.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Loading IMEngine module: uim ...
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 0 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 1 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 2 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 3 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 4 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 5 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 6 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 7 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 8 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 9 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 10 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 11 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 12 ... : Disabled
>     Loading IMEngine Factory 13 ... : Disabled
> No Factory loaded from uim IMEngine module!
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But I tried "scim -f socket -e uim,m17n,pinyin,table,rawcode -c simple -d"
> instead, then it worked!  I got the full menu back. :)  I still wonder why I
> don't have icons for UIM and M17N entries in the menu while others do...  but
> I don't care very much about it. ;)
> 
> >It seems the SCIM menu is not always updated properly.  I uninstalled
> >Mandrake's uim and scim-uim (for dependency) to install uim compiled without
> >m17n support, but when I restarted SCIM, UIM-* were still there.
> 
> I've realized I have to kill SCIM manually (or reboot) to get the menu
> updated.  Isn't the process killed when logout?
> 
> Ming Hua wrote:
> > Just a quick question -- is GTK+ involved in this heavy update?
> > SCIM is known to break binary compatibility between GTK+ 2.2 and GTK+ 2.4,
> > you have to recompile SCIM after GTK+ upgrade.
> 
> I don't think so.  They were mostly KDE 3.2.3 packages.  Thank you for trying
> to help me anyway.
> 
> Yukiko
>