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When u guys see this article, u may feel my pain!
I installed RH9.2 (include GNOME) couple of days ago. I prefer an English looking environment with the ability to view and input Chinese, so include Chinese language package during installing. Then I heard that there was one thing in this world called SCIM, much better than the installed Chinese input method. So I unstall the previous method, download SCIM and Pinyin IMEngine source from www.scim-im.org and install it.

Then the nightmare begins. The SCIM does not start automatically.(that's ok, I strat it myself successfully). But even I can see the 'scim-launcher' process in the system-provided tool of viewing status of process, I just can not call out the input method in any application(gedit, abiword, mozilla...). There is also no SCIM pannel in the system tray.

I tried the solutions out there such like adding or modifying the following lines:
GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
LANGUAGE=zh_CN
to /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xinput, of course, in vain.

My SCIM package is scim-1.4.4.tar.gz (I also tried scim-1.2.2.tar.gz).
Pinyin package is scim-pinyin-0.5.91.tar.gz.
Scim-table package is scim-tables-0.5.6.tar.gz.

BTW, when I run ./configure in the install procedure of Pinyin and Scim-table, the terminal prompts:
"checking for SCIM... Package scim was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `scim.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'scim' found
configure: error: Package requirements (scim >= 1.4.0) were not met.
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix."

I managed to find 'scim.pc' in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and run:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. The install can finish. Is there anything to do with this fault?
Or haven't I done something important? Alternatively, have I done something deadly wrong? Is this about compatibility?

Help me!

Mikeandmore

really
do not use such old distro of linux

use ubuntu mandriva or other newer version distro