Re: scim/skim question

Hi,
  Why do you want to disable the trigger keys? You can use an unusual 
key binding for trigger key to prevent enabling scim by accident.

Regards
James Su

Mike FABIAN wrote:

>Tobias Burnus <[email protected]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
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>>I'll just started to use skim/scim (first for my first steps in Chinese
>>and as support for the Chinese members in our group). (I've the new
>>version from projects/m17n/ on a SUSE Linux 9.2 system with de_DE.UTF-8.)
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>>In the skim configuration dialog I can enter keyboard shortcuts to
>>enable/disable scim and to change to the next input, but they don't seem
>>to be effective.
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>Did you click on "Reload config"?
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>>Is there a simple method to disable/enable scim completely? I mean in a
>>way I can quickly re-enable it. I tend to hit Shift+space rather
>>frequently and get then some nice characters, e.g., instead of leaving
>>vi (":q").
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>If you have the latest packages from projects/m17n, you can change
>the trigger key from the command line like this:
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>   scim-config-agent -s /Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Trigger=Control+Alt+Shift+space
>   scim-config-agent --reload
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>You could put such commands to set the trigger key to some weird,
>inconvenient key combination which you cannot hit by accident in to a
>script and execute such a script with a button on your KDE desktop for
>example. Then you would have a button to disable and another button to
>enable scim.
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>Currently it is *not* possible to disable scim by making the value of
>/Hotkeys/FrontEnd/Trigger empty, in that case scim uses Control+Space
>which is hardcoded in the source code.
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>Maybe it should be allowed to disable keybindings by setting them to
>empty? Zhe Su, what do you think?
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>>At "Scim server|input methods" of Skim config, I can enable/disable
>>input methods, but it does not seem to have any effect on both the menu
>>shown by the kicker applet or on the methods shown when cycling through.
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>Looks like you need to reload the config. 
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>>What is the difference between Keyboard and
>>German/Keyboard>German/European by the way?
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>I think none.
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>>Question of the complete novice in Chinese: Next to the input parameter
>>field I see with "intelligent pinyin" a button labeled "$BCf(B" and three
>>other symbols still unknown to me. What is ment by those?
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>The symbol which looks like a crescent moon toggles between full width
>and half width. You can use that for example to write full with $B#L#A#T(B
>$B#I#N(B. The next button to the right which shows a period and a comma
>toggles between the full width and the half width forms for
>punctuation.
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>>By the way, I'll completely miss a description of how the input methods
>>work.
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>Yes, some more documentation is needed. Some nice descriptions made by
>users are already available on the internet and I plan to add some
>description of the various scim input methods to my home page as well
>after SuSE 9.3 is released.
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>>I figured out that, e.g., unicode works by entering the entering
>>the hex code of the character, but what means "unicode", "utf-8",
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>No, the 4 digit Unicode code point, i.e. UCS2 (=UTF-16 in the BMP).
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>>"de" next to it?
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>"de" next to what?
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