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Gnome2 and GTK2 applications can use a different input protocol, gtk2 immodule, in addition to XIM (X Input Method). The latter can be used in KDE/Qt and other GUI applications, while the former is for GTK2-apps only if my understanding is correct.

I am not sure about the benefit or difference between the two input protocols, but I can tell that some people have been experienceing problems without adding the line:

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

to the ~/.i18n file, I would guess the line means pointing gtk2 immodule to use the same input program which XIM is using. In other words, by making XIM=program1 and GTK_IM_MODULE=program2, you can make different applications using different input method. By stating GTK_IM_MODULE=xim (in lower case again) you will be using the same input method across GTK2 and non-GTK2 applications.

Also, SCIM's user manual in Simplified Chinese:

http://ns.turbolinux.com.cn/~suzhe/scim/us...ser-manual.html

I don't use Gnome2 so I am not sure how that gtk2-immodule works for SCIM under Gnome, I think James Su is the person you should talk to for a direct answer in LinuxSir BBS.

Oh, and one more thing, the sodipodi screenshots are not my own artwork. :lol:

I hope I can achieve such quality of illustration in some day. My contention is only to show what SVG format and sodiopodi is capable to produce. By the way, in KDE 3.2 a SVG viewer is bundled called KSVG. Mozilla SVG support, hopefully will be available someday now that KSVG and Konqueror is offering some competition in the picture.

GCombust works for me.

Yes, DOlson's article at here:

Gaming and Linux in 2003:

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?si...03/04/18/169209

Linux Gamers' FAQ:

http://icculus.org/lgfaq/

Linux Game List:

http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php

Programming Linux Games PDF book released by the author:

http://happypenguin.org/newsitem?id=3016

SDL articles by Bob Pendleton at Oreillynet.com:

(Notice the latest article about setting up OpenGL in SDL)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1205

I think the core matter of concern is to get more games to port to Linux.

The most popular genre of games that got ported were FPS, or games that relied on Linux Server, such as NWN. Most of them are developed with OpenGL and SDL, so to be familiar with such APIs will have developers reaching Windows, Linux and Mac OS X market. OpenML and OpenAL are maturing nicely, with ALSA finally reached stable 1.0.x state. I think the audio support of the Linux platform is more or less complete in 2004 (though with SDL, you probably don't need to access ALSA API directly).

The upcoming games to be released in Linux will be UT2004, and if rumor were correct, Doom 3.

However, I personally feel that a great MMORPG is missing for the platform, such as EQ or Dark Age of Camelot.

First, if you have copied /etc/sysconfig/i18n to your home directory as ~/.i18n , then the system will set the locale according to ~/.i18n instead.

Second, there is no need to delete Xcin / SCIM (except for harddrive space reason), these IMEs can co-exist in the same system easily.

Finally, there is no need to change any other system file except ~/.i18n. I never touch other system files such as /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, /etc/X11/xinit/XIM, ~/.xinitrc at all.

I am not sure where your problem stems from, so here is my suggestion:

1) For the line: XMODIFIERS="@im=xcin-zh_TW", I will guess xcin must not be in upper case (Caps), it should be in lower case; change the XIM/XIM_PROGRAM lines too if you still find any problem.

2) The OpenOffice.org problem is unlikely to be solved without a complete re-install of Mandrake, it's very weird indeed.

3) If you decide to re-install, when choosing language, change to the Advanced Option and choose English (American/ British), Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and other languages you use along side, then the system will have all the locale components needed.

4) I recommend copying the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n to ~/.i18n

That way you can change and test your locale setting easily by editting ~/.i18n plus log out/log in.

5) I am not sure about this, whether your are using Xcin or SCIM, you may also have to add this line to your /etc/syconfig/i18n or ~/.i18n

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

For installing Xcin and its configuration under Mandrake 9.1+, you can check out these discussions at HKLPG BBS:

http://bbs.hklpg.org/viewtopic.php?t=5195

http://bbs.hklpg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4664

It's not too difficult after all, is it? B)

Just spotted, official 030811 non-Pro Bios will enable SSE on AthlonXP Thoroughbed by default, also with proper detection of huge size (>137GB) harddrive:

ftp://ftp.ecs.com.tw/bios/mb/k7/k7s5a/k7s5a030811.exe

I don't overclock my CPU so this BIOS works fine for me. :D

BTW, under Linux it is pretty easy to make a FreeDOS boot floppy with the BIOS rom file and the AMI flash utility inside.

Looks cool.

> Just to be sure, "~/.i18n" means .i18n in my home directory, right? /home/me/.i18n, right?

Yes, ~/.i18n = /home/username/.i18n

and modify the file like this:

LANGUAGE=zh_TW.UTF-8:zh_TW:zh_HK:zh
LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_NAME=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_TIME=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=zh_TW.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=zh_TW.UTF-8
CONSOLE_NOT_LOCALIZED=yes
ENC=utf8
XIM_PROGRAM=scim
XIM=scim
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"

Though I am using KDE, there is a chance you may need to install this package:

scim-gtk2-immodule-0.9.0-1.i586.rpm

and change some configurations to make SCIM work with Gnome, but I am not sure about that. SCIM official site would have more info.

I don't use Pinyin myself, but if you really want, you can go to LinuxSir BBS to ask James Su (suzhe), the author of SCIM to see if he can help:

http://www.linuxsir.com/bbs/forumdisplay.p...hp?s&forumid=42

As for the autostart of SCIM, modifying the ~/.i18n file as in the Chinese tutorial should do the trick.

You can delete the .xsession-errors if you wish. It is just an error log file.

Also, try to close OpenOffice.org, then logout/re-login again, the autostart of OpenOffice.org should go away, and do not shutdown/reboot your system without closing it.

And if you try to use scim at console, you must add the -d option so that it is running as a daemon service, see my previous post for more detail.

I first uninstalled the 0.8.2 RPM, then downloaded and installed the 0.9.0 one.  I copied the details you gave into my home/me/.i18n file, and I even tried setting localedrake to something else and then back to Taiwanese/traditional.

Make sure you run localedrake BEFORE modifying ~/.i18n

Are there other files that I need to change?  I noticed that you only said to write SCIM in the last line -- does it need to be in caps in other lines?  What about other files?

In my experience, there is no need to be CAPS in other lines.

With the modified ~/.i18n, SCIM should start when you re-login your account.

If not, try:

$ export LC_ALL=zh_TW.UTF-8

$ export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

$ export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

$ scim -d

From then, every XIM-compliant program launched thru command line in that terminal will be able to use SCIM; however, it is limited to that terminal environment.

That's why I would suggest modifying ~/.i18n, after re-login again it should do the trick.

Nice find. Heads-up and thanks :D .

There is a tutorial for running SCIM in Mandrake 9.1+ here, but it's in Traditional Chinese:

http://bbs.hklpg.org/viewtopic.php?t=6462

If there is enough demand I can write an English version and post it at the Tips and Tricks forum.

My suggestion is to do the symlink with the right path.

1. Most of the intricate details on installing Java Runtime JRE 1.4.2 can be found in this thread:

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10773

2. Java 1.4.2 can be found here:

http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp

3. And if you still feel confused, I believe Fedoranews.org has a good tutorial in this regard, using Blackdown's Java VM instead of the one from Sun:

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/blackdownjava/

Thanks for the great guide illogic-al.

BTW, to those who are using Athlon XP Thoroughbed (0.13 micron) CPU, there is a bug in the official K7S5A BIOS such that SSE is disabled by default (Note: K7S5A Pro is not affected).

Update: The Official ECS K7S5A Bios 030811 has finally fixed the SSE bug, and it now will also detect huge size harddrive (>137GB) properly.

Try to check it out by:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

I have an Athlon XP 2000+ and my result is like this:

processor : 0

vendor_id : AuthenticAMD

cpu family : 6

model : 8

model name : AMD Athlon XP 2000+

stepping : 0

cpu MHz : 1659.627

cache size : 256 KB

fdiv_bug : no

hlt_bug : no

f00f_bug : no

coma_bug : no

fpu : yes

fpu_exception : yes

cpuid level : 1

wp : yes

flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow

bogomips : 3316.12

There is NO "sse" in the flags entry.

To correct this problem you can get the official 030811 BIOS from ECS, or unofficial Honey X BIOS from the K7S5A motherboard forum, check out this unofficial K7S5A guide for more detail:

--> The unofficial K7S5A motherboard guide (version 1.2f)

Another update: Do not enable APIC (don't confuse it with ACPI) feature if you use Honey X Bios, it could render Mandrake Linux fail to boot nor install at all.

I think it's time to get Linux on Desktop, and MandrakeSoft should incorporate some of the features such as Robert Love's HAL and udev for desktop usability enhancement:

See ArsTechnica's interview with Robert Love* :

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1074752900.html

* Robert Love is the author of the pre-emptive kernel patch, which is crucial to reducing latency - good for audio production and synchronization - among others.

Beta 2 is out:

http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1846

I tried that to install another jVM package that chrisz|work recommended to me and it worked now.

I suppose it's the Java VM developed by the Blackdown Project:

http://www.blackdown.org/

Anyway, I am glad you made it working.

I think SCO will be bankrupt before any of these trials have reached verdict.

Once again, this is yet another contract issue, nothing related to copyright or IP.

SCO's interpretation of the "agreement" is NOT shared by the rest of the industry at all, except a few speculators.

It's indeed very weird. If I were you, I will try to see if other Mozilla version (such as 1.5) or Firebird would have the same problem. But one thing, Java VM does NOT start with Mozilla, I think something could be screwed up in the plugins directory?? Anyway, I will get a new 1.6 download and re-install it, see if it helps...

You can find a gtk2+xft tarball binaries for Mozilla 1.6 here:

http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

The latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Linux can be located here:

http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp

I suspect drakfont has imported the TTF and put in this path:

4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf

Try

$ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf

and see if they were there.