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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: status of XIM support?
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu> writes:
Steve> What is the current status of our XIM support?  Does it work for
Steve> anybody? What do you have to do to get it to work?

I implemented XIM support, twice:

- first --with-xim=xlib
- second --with-xim=motif

The Motif implementation works well, and is being shipped with Sun
WorkShop. The xlib implementation works less well, and I am no longer
actively maintaining it.  I would have deleted it, except that not
everyone has Motif support.

I have only ever tested XIM on Solaris, where I developed it.

Steve> I'm currently trying "--xim=xlib" on ix86 linux with kinput2.  I did

Steve>   setenv XMODIFIER "@im=kinput2"

./input-method-xlib has a call to XSetLocaleModifiers, but I've never
seen it have any effect - Solaris doesn't expect users to use
XMODIFIERS .  Someone else will have to debug this.  Also, isn't it
XMODIFIERS, not XMODIFIER??
  
Steve> and added 

Steve>  *inputMethod: kinput2

Steve> to my X resources.  This works with kterm, but not with XEmacs.

Steve> (I'm quite happy with "wnn-egg", but there are a couple of users in the 
Steve> Tokyo Linux Users Group who want to use XIM.)

Martin

