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[edit] About GCIN

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[edit] Installing GCIN

pacman -S gcin

[edit] Installing Other Input Tables

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[edit] Configure GCIN

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[edit] Use GCIN

[edit] With GNOME/GTK+ 2 applications

gcin provides a gtk input module, thus all gtk2-based applications are directly supported, there is no need to configure anything after installation (it's not XIM, and gcin is automatically started when needed).

[edit] With other applications

1.Set environment locale to use UTF-8, for example:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

(You must set the LC_CTYPE locale even if it's as same as LANG, otherewise gcin may not be activated in non-gtk2 programs that use x input)

2.Set XMODIFIERS:

export XMODIFIERS=@im=gcin

gcin use the name "gcin" by default, and you can change this by the environment variable GCIN_XIM in order to run multiple gcin instances, for example:

export GCIN_XIM=gcin_zh
export XMODIFIERS=@im=gcin_zh

Remember that gtk2 applications start one instance of gcin automatically if it doesn't exist.

3.Start gcin:

gcin &

4.Run your applications! (If gcin is killed when your applications are running, it's likely to cause crash or other problems.)

[edit] Additional notes for wine/crossover office

1.If you run wine or crossover office, it's better to use windows 2000 emulation instead of windows 98, and you have to start gcin and wine/cxoffice with at least LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8, otherwise wine wouldn't be able to show chinese correctly.

2.In wine+IE6 with windows 98 emulation, LC_CTYPE isn't enough if you want to input chinese on the web-pages - you have to set either LANG or LC_ALL to zh_TW.utf8, which slows down wine a lot. However, you can always type chinese in the location bar or other places and paste it.