KWrite and Kate of KDE4 do not show "select IM" in the right-click context menu and so cannot select and use iBus/Scim

Can you please install scim-bridge-client-qt4 and try again?

Please also post the following information:
 * which locale are you using?
 * how did you activate Chinese input support?
 * the output of 'im-switch -l' from a terminal window.

Thanks

I have already installed scim-bridge-client-qt4 0.4.14-1ubuntu2

locale: en_NZ.UTF-8

I didn't do anything to activate chinese input support. The scim keyboard automatically appears at the right side of the bottom toolbar. For some applciations, such as konqueror, where "select IM" is available, I just pick SCIM.

Here is the output of im-switch -l:

abc@kubuntu:~$ im-switch -l
Your input method setup under en_NZ locale as below.
=======================================================
No private "/home/abc/.xinput.d/en_NZ or /home/abc/.xinput.d/all_ALL" is defined.
=======================================================
The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" .
xinput-all_ALL - status is auto.
 link currently points to default
skim - priority 0
default - priority 10
default-xim - priority 0
none - priority 0
Current `best' version is default.
=======================================================
The available input method configuration files are:
/usr/bin/find: /home/abc/.xinput.d: No such file or directory
default default-xim none scim scim-bridge scim-chewing scim-immodule scim-pinyin skim th-xim
=======================================================
abc@kubuntu:~$

im-switch -s scim-bridge

should help.

Please also remove the skim package from your system, as it is incompatible with KDE4 and causes trouble. (This has only recently been discovered.)

I am running Jaunty with latest updates till 2009-02-20. I am also unable to use scim in non-GTK applications (I don't use any regularly than Firefox and Thunderbird) such as KDE 4 applications, KDE 3 applications (OpenOffice uses KDE 3 widgets). Please help. Additional information:

# dpkg-query -W | grep scim

libscim8c2a 1.4.7-3ubuntu11
scim 1.4.7-3ubuntu11
scim-bridge-agent 0.4.14-2ubuntu5
scim-bridge-client-gtk 0.4.14-2ubuntu5
scim-bridge-client-qt4 0.4.14-2ubuntu5
scim-gtk2-immodule 1.4.7-3ubuntu11
scim-modules-socket 1.4.7-3ubuntu11
scim-modules-table 0.5.8-1
scim-tables-additional 0.5.8-1

I don't have skim installed.

My /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession (self-edited) ends with:

# invoke .xim in user home directory
[ -f $HOME/.xim ] && . $HOME/.xim
# invoke global X session script
. /etc/X11/Xsession

where ~/.xim contains:

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
scim -d
im-switch -s scim-bridge

I did these modifications as prescribed at http://graphicsmakesfun.blogspot.com/2007/12/autostart-scim-under-kde4.html but still it does not work on non-GTK applications.

Is this still an issue with kde 4.1, 2 or 3?

27. Jun 2009 10:41 vorm. schrieb am "Terence Simpson" <
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** Package changed: kdebase-kde4 (Ubuntu) => kdebase (Ubuntu)

-- Many KDE4 applications (such as Kwrite and Kate) does not show the
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Still an issue for me on KDE4.2. I worked around it by using scim instead of scim-bridge, see my comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/36547/comments/6

Confirming that it's still an issue for me, too.
Kubuntu Jaunty KDE4.2.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the newest release - Lucid Lynx. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Obviously, I meant to say the newest release Karmic Koala :)

Hello, I'm running a full fledged hard disk installation (i.e. don't know about live desktop CD) of Kubuntu Karmic Koala with the latest updates for KDE and still have this error. So I'm resetting this from Incomplete -> New.

Upstream bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95869
Closing the Launchpad bug since we can just track this at the KDE bug.