Hi Leon Ho, Tks for your URL and advice. > KDE applications need to use httx bridge to > communicate to IIIMF. Can > you see if that program is running by xinitrc (check > with 'ps auxwww | > grep httx') $ ps auxwww | grep httx satimis 2576 0.0 0.1 4760 576 pts/3 R 12:40 0:00 grep httx What is 'auxwww' ??? http://www.openi18n.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=105&page=1 As USER 1st Terminal $ ps -efw | grep htt | grep -v grep htt 1419 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/htt htt 2520 1419 0 12:04 ? 00:00:00 htt_server -nodaemon 2nd Terminal $ kedit kedit started but without Chinese input function. The small window at the left-bottom corned was not shown. As 'super root' 1st Terminal # ps -efw | grep htt | grep -v grep htt 1419 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/htt htt 2520 1419 0 12:04 ? 00:00:00 htt_server -nodaemon 2nd Terminal # kedit kbuildsycoca running... >> running as realtime process now (priority 50) ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe Launched ok, pid = 2733 [root@localhost root]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2726, errno = 0 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2730, errno = 0 kedit started but without Chinese input function. The small window at the left-bottom corned was not shown. B.R. Stephen > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:25 +0800, Stephen Liu > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Fedora Core 2 > > > > # service IIim restart > > Stopping IIIMF input server: [ OK ] > > Starting IIIMF input server: [ OK ] > > # LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8 GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim kedit > > kbuildsycoca running... > > > > kedit started but no Chinese editing function > > available. Toggle [Ctrl + Space] has no function. > > > > Please advise how to fix it. TIA > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu ===== Best Regards Stephen Liu _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk