Talk:Living in Japan/Getting Established/Computing

Mozilla/Firefox
You need a guide for Mozilla/Firefox users (such as myself).
 * There already is.. just follow the instructions on the page and it will install the fonts/etc for windows. Firefox will use these fonts. - Sik0fewl 05:48, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Unix/X11
A guide for X11 and Gnome/KDE (Unix, *BSD, Linux) users would be much appreciated.


 * ^I second that


 * Yep. Triple that. I never got an IME working on Linux.


 * I'll see if I can get IME working on my machine. If I am able to get it working, I'll write down what I did here. - Sik0fewl 14:10, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I put up a preliminary guide to IMEs under Debian. It could do with somebody testing that all the neccessary packages are listed. I'm afraid I don't know how one enables an IME if you're using some wierd "desktop environment" that doesn't use a .Xsession file.
 * The Unix/X11 section could do with lists of packages for other distributions, and also some information on Japanese-specific distributions.

Windows 2000
Windows 2000-specific instructions are needed; the steps are not quite the same as XP. I'd put them up myself, but I already got it working and I forget how :)

How to use it? (GNOME)
OK, I followed the steps here, and while I'm sure these are useful first things to install, I still need to figure out how to use them. :-)

A different approach I tried: Now if I click the panel object (it looks like just a label, but it acts sort of like a button!) until it says "Jpn", I'm typing in Katakana. Huzzah! The katakana don't seem to correspond to either Qwerty or Dvorak locations, unfortunately, so it's going to be complete trial-and-error for a couple weeks.
 * added a GNOME panel object called "Keyboard Indicator"
 * right-click, Keyboard Preferences
 * Layouts, Add..., Japan / Kana
 * (Layout Options has a "Japanese keyboard options", but I have no clue what they are: "Kana Lock key is locking", and "NICOLA-F style Backspace"; the help file doesn't mention them)
 * (there's a "Default" column, with a circle in each row, but it doesn't seem to do anything)

I don't know yet how to type Hiragana (which is what I really wanted), or Kanji (but that sounds really complicated). It looks like "scim" is what I'll need for this, but I tried running "scim-setup" and it's obviously written for somebody who already knows what they're doing, and I am not (yet) that person.

Windows Vista
How about an input method for vista? --98.160.238.54 (talk) 04:05, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * From what I gather, Microsoft has become more and more i18n friendly and I suppose IMs should be covered. If you have Vista, feel free to research this and leave a note on how that is done. --Swift (talk) 16:52, 24 June 2009 (UTC)