Hi Ed, > Sounds like you need to find what is wrong with that eventually. > > > .xinput.d > > can't be located. > > When you logged in as yourself (not root). Did you.... > > mkdir ~/.xinput.d > cd ~/.xinput.d > ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim default > > ???? Sorry I can't recall. Did it again on terminal (Konsole); $ mkdir ~/.xinput.d $ cd ~/.xinput.d $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim default $ ls -l ~/.xinput.d/default lrwxrwxrwx 1 satimis satimis 28 May 4 15:36 /home/satimis/.xinput.d/default -> /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim The symlink is there. On the same terminal (konsole); $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 $ export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM $ kedit kedit started Still can't input Chinese. [Ctrl]+[Space] had no effect. Exited kedit ScimInputContextPlugin() ~ScimInputContextPlugin() $ gedit gedit started with the same result. Unable inputing Chinese on English locale. B.R. SL