Ubuntu / Kubuntu

Installation of scim on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

The latest release of Ubuntu comes with scim installed by default.

To install the languages you plan to use along with their input method engines go to:
System->Administration->Language Support
and select the languages you need.
If you want scim to work with programs that use Qt you need to install scim-qtimm:

$ sudo apt-get install scim-qtimm

System configuration

Locale configuration

Set scim as the input method for X under the locale en_US.utf8:

$ im-switch -z en_US -s scim

This will create a .xinput.d directory under your home directory along with a file that

lists all of the exported environment variables necessary for scim upon startup. This file

will be read by the 80im-switch script located in /etc/X11/Xsession.d when X starts up.

End of the configuration

To enable the new configuration you need to restart X. You can do this either by rebooting or log out and do a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.