Great, now it works! The link https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00376.html explained where my problem originated from. For those who might come after me:
From Fedora 7 on, SCIM is not activated by default anymore on installation.
To be able to continuously switch between English and an Asian language during a session, both have to be installed and one has to run "im-chooser" from the command line and then choose "Use custom input method: scim". Then the language bar will appear with a small "SCIM" icon in the corner of GNOME. Thanks for resolving this... Matthias 2007/4/27, Warren Togami <wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Matthias Kredler wrote: >> When installing Fedora 7, I included language support for >> English and Japanese. It seems to me that the required >> package for Japanese is there, since Japanese web sites >> are displayed. >> >> My problem is the following: I would like to have something >> like a language bar in GNOME so that I can change >> quickly from inputting English text to inputting Japanese >> characters in one session without having to re-boot. I >> believe that I saw some language bar with customizable >> keyboard shortcuts to do just that in Fedora Core 6 on >> friends machine, but I couldn't find any reference to >> something like this in the Fedora 7 support and when >> searching the web. >> >> Any suggestions would be great! > > You would need to install SCIM and its frontend depending on the desktop > environment you are using. Also the discussions in > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00376.html > might be interesting to you. > > Rahul Simply type: yum groupinstall japanese-support Then relogin to your desktop. Run "im-chooser" to be sure that SCIM is launched. Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
