[11:47] Hello, my daughter is learning Japanese and using lbuntu on an older laptop. How can she enter Kanji characters? Etc. I tried adding a Japanese "Keyboard Input" for her. Pressing "Super Space" key sequence shows "JP and US" in a nice dialog on the screen. However regardless of how the input is toggled, Kanji char input sequences do NOT output Kanji chars. Any advice? [15:27] Hello! [15:28] sewardrobert: What input method do you use? ibus + mozc or ibus + anthy? [15:28] Emmanuel_Chanel: How would I know? [15:30] I'm not good at US Keyboards since I'm a Japanese man using Japanese Keyboards. But you can see what software she has installed by aptitude [15:30] $aptitude search ibus-anthy [15:30] $aptitude search ibus-mozc [15:31] Oh, you installed Japanese keyboard. So click [全角/半角]([Zenkaku/Hankaku]) on the left top corner. [15:31] Emmanuel_Chanel: Ha! I was thinking of buying a Japanese USB keyboard for her. But she has to learn these key sequences when she uses software at school. [15:32] You can input Kanjis without Japanese keyboards. That's sure. [15:33] You can do also on Windows' MS-IMSE. [15:35] Emmanuel_Chanel: This is on lbuntu with LXDE. Hitting "Super Space" key brings up a dialog that toggles between "JP and US". However the dialog seems to have no affect. I try to type "kho" for that symbol but all I see in gedit or abiword are the english characters "kho". I was expecting that when the Japanese Keyboard input is active, that "kho" would produce the corresponding Japanese symbol (kanji?) . [15:36] Can I see her screen shot? I don't know if I could find something. You need to blacken her personal info, though. [15:37] Emmanuel_Chanel: Are you around for a bit? I need to start her laptop up and try again. [15:38] Yes. [15:39] She uses Lubuntu 14.04 now? [15:40] Yes that is correct. [15:44] Left Click the ibus icon on the panel. The 2nd top icon of lench is for configuration. You see the edit button on the right of MS-IME or so. [15:46] I'm not 100% sure if it will help. But you will find the configuration editor for what you want. [15:47] Oh, there is http://moritzmolch.com/1453 Does it help you? [15:48] How about switch from Super+Space to CTRL+Space ? [15:48] Emmanuel_Chanel: This is the first time I have tried to use Linux to generate symbols outside of "english" characters. Is my expectation correct? That once Japanese Keyboard Input is configured properly and active, that a keyboard sequence of "kho" should output the corresponding Kanji character? [15:49] Yes. Looks kho doesn't have Japanese output on IME, though. [15:49] Try input 愛 from inputting ai [15:50] Input ai and [CTRL] + [Space] one or some times after that. [15:54] Oh. So you input the character sequence and the "Super Space" or "Control Space" (whatever you have configured). I expected it to be the reverse. [15:54] Yes. [15:55] Oh... [15:55] Hhm... [15:56] Enable mozc with pushing [META] + [Space] and input ai and I click [Space] bar. [16:05] Someone others here? [16:05] sewardrobert: How does it go? [17:00] Emmanuel_Chanel: Sorry I had a phone call. [17:01] I reconfigured the Keyboard Input to use Control Space instead of "Super Space". But it behaves largely the same. [17:02] Pressing Control Space and then typing "ai" and then space does not yeild Kanji. Instead it displays the english text "ai " [17:03] Hhm... [17:03] Is ibus daemon or so booted? [17:03] Oh, booted... [17:05] hhm... It's over midnight in Japan now. So hard to find other advisors... [17:21] Emmanuel_Chanel: http://moritzmolch.com/1453 seems to be very useful. I didn't have Japanese Language support installed. I am working on that currently. [17:40] So solved? [17:40] Good to hear. [18:05] Installed Japanese language support (with anthy) and then re-configured my Keyboard Input to have "Japanese - Anthy" and now I have Kanji! [18:05] Emmanuel_Chanel: Thank you. I am bookmarking that URL.