When you activate the IBus by clicking:
Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard Input Methods
the following Alert Box pops up.
Clicking the "Yes" Button does as the same Alert Box will continue to pop up.
Activating the IBus Daemon from the terminal yields:
While it's nice to have IBus working for Japanese input, it is not possible in this instance and being Linux we have to find an alternative solution and that solution is to install UIM through the following steps.
1. Install uim and uim-anthy by searching through Software Manager, Synaptic Package Manager or through the terminal. These instructions uses the terminal for installation.
At the terminal type:
sudo apt-get install uim uim-anthy
2. Add language support
- Menu -> Preferences -> Language Support
- Click "Install/Remove Languages" Button
- Select Japanese
- Click "Apply Changes" Button
- Select "uim" at the "Keyboard input method system:" Drop down box
3. Setting up UIM
- Menu -> Preferences -> Input Method
- If there are more than one Input Method option, select the uim one with the blue icon.
- Change settings to your liking then click "OK" Button.
4. Set Keyboard Input Method
- Menu -> Preferences -> Input Method
- If there are more than one Input Method option, select the one with the keyboard icon.
- Click Yes, Yes and OK and it will generate the .xinputrc file in your Home folder
5. Logout and Log back in or reboot the computer if necessary
6. Test with Gedit, Mozilla or Chrome and LibreOffice Writer. From the above settings, press space to switch between direct input method or Anthy (UTF-8).
