On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:13:07 +1100 "Yuandan Zhang" <yuandan.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The scim setup, ctrl+space was set to trigger scim, but there was no > response after hit ctrl + space. > > if i log in, setting chinese as the system language, the trigger command is > working, but not when set English as the system language. how to fix this? Did you try switching to Chinese in the systray applet menu? eg Left click on icon -> Chinese -> Pinyin By default scim won't use Chinese on an English Desktop until you select it. Jens