Kimera Version 1.40
-- Kanji Input MEthod by RAgamuffin --
-About Kimera Kimera is an input method (XIM) for the X Window System utilizing the Qt toolkit that provides Japanese language input support. It provides Kanji conversion via Canna or Anthy, as well as supporting the ability to assign input styles. We are also considering a simple key assign selection method like the one used in Windows.
Kimera has the following special features:
- A simple GUI.
- Support for a kana to Kanji conversion engine, you can choose from Canna or Anthy.
- Input Prediction support (requires Anthy or PRIME)
- Support for switching between romaji and kana
- Key Assign Support (select from 4 styles, MS-IME, ATOK, Kinput2, and VJE styles)
- Pre-edit display characteristic customization. (change the color, background and style of characters that are being edited)
-Install Please see the INSTALL file.
-Invoking You must set LANG environment variable to a proper value to encode characters. If it was set, don't change it. example: export LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
After confirming that Canna is running, or that Anthy is installed you can start Kimera with: $ kimera &
After starting Kimera there will be a dictionary file as well as a settings file created in the $HOME/.kimera directory.
If you execute kimera on the machine that SCIM is running in backend, kimera may freeze. In the case, stop SCIM and check scim-launcher is not run. Also check SCIM applications is not run in the system tray, then execute kimera.
If you use immodule of Qt/GTK+, set up environment variables XIM protocol. export QT_IM_MODULE=xim export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
-Japanese Input In order to verify that everything is running properly configure your environment variables and run a program. For your reference you can try the example below. Set your XMODIFIERS environment variable and run a program that supports the XIM protocol.
example: $ XMODIFIERS="@im=kimera" kterm -xim & or $ XMODIFIERS="@im=kimera" xemacs &
By default the half width/full width (2-byte kanji) key will start Japanese input by means of romaji. When the Kimera toolbar changes to a hiragana "a" it has detected the start of japanese input. You can change this Japanese input key in the properties under "nyuuryoku kaishi ki-". If it wont switch into Japanese input mode, make sure that the input change trigger isn't already set by xev. It's normally Zenkaku_Hankaku or Kanji. If you still can't switch into Japanese mode, try a different trigger (such as shift-space) and re-try the install from the beginning.
You can set up environment variables in your .bash_profile file using your shell's various faculties. For example Bash users will do something like:
XMODIFIERS="@im=kimera" export XMODIFIERS
-Input Prediction After installing Anthy (7100b and above) or PRIME, go to the options to "conversion engine" and turn on "use input prediction" to use the prediction feature. If you type type a few characters the normal input conversion display should appear. You can use the prediction on this display by pressing Shift+Enter.
-Simple Phrase Conversion While inputting something, hit CTRL-Space to use simple phrase conversion. This is useful for inputting common phrases like your full name, or company name.
-Changing Key Settings In the properties, under "input", and "change key settings" you can change the key behavior to one of the following four styles: MS-IME style, ATOK style, Kinput2 style and VJE style.
-Dictionary File
To convert from romaji to hiragana Kimera reads a file at invocation.
This dictionary file is created in
To return to the defaults, simply delete the dictionary file. To return all Kimera settings to defaults, delete the entire .kimera directory. It will be created again the next time Kimera is executed.
-Tested This software has been tested on the following distributions: Vine Linux 4.1 Gentoo Linux 2005.0 Mandriva Linux 2006.1 Fedora Core 5 Turbo Linux FUJI Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge Ubuntu 5.10 Japanese FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
Please report any success on other distributions toe the author.
-Home Page The official Kimera Homepage is http://kimear.sourceforge.jp/
-Bug Reports If you experience a bug, please attach the $HOME/.kimera/kimera.log file to your email, and any related output and contact the author(s). The log file is overwritten every time kimera is run, so make sure to copy the log immediately after experiencing a bug.
-Thanks James Rubingh, English translation