fc9 - scim not working with firefox

[pbfruit]

I just updated my machine from fc6 to fc9. Now, I installed scim-1.4.7-23.fc9.i386 but scim isn't working with firefox. It is working with xterm though...I'm trying to use Anthy to input Japanese.

I put the following lines to .bash_profile as well.

export XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM'
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
scim -d

What else do I need to change to make it work with firefox again? It was working just fine with fc6 so I'm totally lost here.

Thank you for your help in advance!

[scottro]

(Rolls up sleeves to show there's nothing up them.)
either
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8

or
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"

should fix it.
I would go for the GTK_IM_MODULE one though, as it enables you to keep LC_CTYPE at default.

[pbfruit]

I just put export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" in .bash_profile, logged out and logged back in. Still not working

Any ideas?

[scottro]

please try
XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" firefox


See if that works.

(Also of course, make sure that scim is running.)

EDIT--it might not have been clear, I meant, please open an xterm and run that command.

[pbfruit]

Still no The way I'm testing is to press Ctrl-space to see if I can type in Japanese or see the language bar show up, which it does in xterm and eterm. I wonder why I didn't need to do anything special with fc6. I'm using Firefox 3.0.1, if that helps any. Help me!

[scottro]

This is peculiar. Maybe, in this case, it's like OpenOffice often is for me.

Ok, try this one
From a terminal
XMODIFIERS='@im=SCIM' GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 firefox

See if that one does it.

[pbfruit]

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! That did it. You are my life saver

[scottro]

It's annoying--there's no hard and fast rule that I've discovered about it yet. In general--but as you see, not always--with GTK stuff you can get away with your usual LC_CTYPE and GTK_IM_MODULE
OR--no GTK_IM_MODULE and ja_JP.whatever.

My guess is if you remove the GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" it will still work, but that's just a guess. If you feel like trying it, I'd be curious, but there's no real need, as I already know it's a whimsical thing. It's more idle curiosity on my part.