<snip> > >I am trying to install Chinese simplified support for a colleague in FC 1 > > but I have some issues. > > > >I need an English desktop with occasional Chinese text input for kmail, OO > >etc.. Now my colleague has to change the "language" (system > >setttings-->language, with root password!!), logout and log back in. > >- How can I avoid the language/user change? > > > >I believe that the Chinese input program installed is XCin. The feedback > > that I get is that it is very slow and inefficient compared to the > > Windoze version. > >- Has anybody seen/installed something better? For anyone following this thread: A "partial" fix to the first issue above: create a .i18n file in your home directory: LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GB18030" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" log in with the language set in Chinese and your should have an English desktop with Chinese support. It is not perfect (fonts are horrible and chinput (CTRL+Space) has to be started and stopped before you open each app.) but it works. For the sencond issue I have not tried the other input methods yet (SCIM or fcitx). gh
