Looking for GNOME language bar (?): Want to switch input language quickly

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 27 23:34:34 UTC 2007


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




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