>>>>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT), >>>>> "JFL" == John Francis Lee <jfmxl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: JFL> Hello, JFL> I list below the error message I got from my LinuxTLE (Fedora Core 3) JFL> system when I tried to add Japanese to the keyboard switcher after JFL> choosing Japanese at log in : JFL> ' Error activating XKB configuration. JFL> Probably internal X server problem. JFL> X server version data: JFL> The X.Org Foundation JFL> 60801000 JFL> If you report this situation as a bug, please include: JFL> - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB JFL> - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb JFL> ' JFL> I ran the two requested programs remotely from an ssh terminal. The guy JFL> who wanted to use Japanese said he'd muddle through just reading JFL> Japanese and is doing so on the machine right now. JFL> [root@ws1 ~]# xprop -root | grep XKB JFL> X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) JFL> Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty) JFL> Atom id in failed request: 0x111 JFL> Serial number of failed request: 11 JFL> Current serial number in output stream: 11 It looks like your X server doesn't support the XKB extention and GNOME just reported it. You could read/write Japanese without changing the keyboard layout to Japanese keyboard because you can input Japanese without Japanese keyboard layout and the input method supports it. -- Akira TAGOH