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usage of nicolatter


first copy the directory with the config files to your home directory:15 

     ~$ cp -r /usr/share/doc/packages/nicolatter/rc ~/.nicolatter

then, for testing, use a japanese capable terminal, (e.g. mlterm), start nicolatter in one terminal (to see the debugging messages), start another terminal and type 

     ~$ lang=ja_jp xmodifiers="@im=nicolatter" mlterm

in the mlterm which starts now, you can input japanese using nicolatter.

i did set the default key to start japanese input to ``control-backslash'', the default keyboard mapping to romaji and the default server to wnn. you can change that on the fly with "nicoconf". to use the jis keyboard mapping for direct hiragana input, check the check-button 図形キーを置き換える and enter the location of the jisx6002.keymap file into the 定義ファイル entry field below this check button (see figure [*], replace /suse/mfabian with your home directory).

if all works to your satisfaction, you can start nicolatter like 

     ~$ nicolatter -d

then it will go directly into the background without printing debugging messages. if you always want to use nicolatter instead of kinput2, edit your ~/.xim file (see section 6.1.2).


footnotes

... directory:15
when using the suse package for nicolatter > = 1.7.5, default config files are already installed in /etc/x11/nicolatter and read from there if /.nicolatter doesn't exist, i.e. you only need to put the config files into your home directory if you don't like the defaults.
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2005-03-09