I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy, everything went smoothly expect one thing - the SCIM input support. Somehow I can't switch to Chinese language input method anymore after the upgrade. It was working perfectly in Feisty. The SCIM icon in the system tray is just a disabled button with the only option is to right click to reload the configuration and change settings. However, after settings are updated and reloaded, nothing happens, I still can't change from English to Chinese PinYin.

After doing some googling, I found a few solutions. I will post the simplest, the one I tried and worked solution here.

Firstly you will need to install scim-bridge using apt:



This essentially allow you to access other applications using SCIM input method.

Then you need to edit the scim config file using your favourite editor:



Find and change from



into



Finally you need to restart your system to make the changes into effect.

If it still not working, you might need to start SCIM manually:



I noticed that this works for most of the applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird, Shell, Openoffice and Pidgin etc, however, it is still not working in a few of them, like Kate. but I think it is better than before when I can't use it at all.

If this guide doesn't work for you, maybe you can try a more complicated solution in Adrian Hoe's Blog.

Hope this helps.

  Chenhui on 2008-06-19 @ 10:28 PM says:  

Not sure what would happen if upgrade to Ubuntu Hardy?

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