Hi Yuandan, Tks for your advice. > make sure you have the symbol link at your home dir. > > .xinput.d/default -> /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim # ls -l /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Feb 9 14:13 /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim # find / -name .xinput.d find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /selinux: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. * * * End * * * .xinput.d can't be located. > At need terminal (email openoffice or xterm), scim can be triggered > by > ctrl+space. > this works well for me with the LANG locale. I am using gnome. > $ echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 I have no problem on input Chinese on "LANG locale" (Trad/Simplified Chinese). I'm now searching for a solution to input Chinese on English locale. TIA B.R. SL