Hi Ed, > Did you log totally out and back in? Or, did you run scim-restart? Ah, I forgot this step. Sorry. Logout and relogin. On Konsole; $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 $ export XMODIFIERS=@IM=SCIM $ kedit Kedt started. Still failed to input Chinese on "kedit". Exited "kedit" ScimInputContextPlugin() Qt: Cannot set locale modifiers: ~ScimInputContextPlugin() $ gedit gedit started, inputing Chinese possible. [Ctrl]+[Space] [Ctrl]+[Shift] both worked. Exited "gedit" (gedit:2419): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers Killed The situation is more less the same as while I ran FC2/FC3, about 1 and half years ago. Chinese input on Gnome was possible. Chinese input on KDE was unstable. Sometime I made it work on Kedit, OOWriter, Mozilla, etc. Another time they failed. I tried some times without a breakthrough. Lot of tks for your advice and time spent. B.R. SL