Hi Leon, Tks for your advice. > The IIIM server should not need to restart everytime > to get it work. If > the service is ran, then all of the user in the > system should able to > use it. The abovemention does not work on my case. Following was my test result; As USER $ LANG=zh.TW.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiimf gedit (gedit:2408): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed (gedit:2408): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed gedit started WITHOUT Chinese input function. The small window at the left-bottom corner displaying input method disappeared $ su - Password: [root@localhost root]# service IIim status htt (pid 1419) is running... The IIim server was running As ROOT # LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit (gedit:2477): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 761 (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed gedit started WITH Chinese input function, disregarding the above warning. The small window at the left-bottom corner showing input method displayed. It seems Chinese input did not work as USER B.R. Stephen > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:44 +0800, Stephen Liu > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Fedora Core 2 > > > > USER is not allowed to input Chinese. Because > before > > starting gedit with > > > > LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim gedit > > > > iiim server must be restarted first with > > # service IIim restart > > > > However the above command can't work as USER > > > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n > > LANG="en_US.iso885915" > > SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en" > > SYSFONT="lat0-sun16" > > SYSFONTACM="iso15" > > > > $ cat ~/.i18n > > XIM=iiimf-le-xcin > > > > Kind advise how to enable USER inputing Chinese. > TIA > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk