How can i type in Hangul (Korean) in Suse 11.4 ?
When I select Korean, I can olnly write English :’(
If you are using KDE, go to System settings>Input devices>Keyboard>Layouts>Add layout and then scroll down the list past Vietnam where you will find Korea. Once the layout is installed a flag will appear in the System tray. Clicking this will cycle through the installed layouts.
The easiest way would be to install ibus, ibus-hangul and some Korean fonts.
Once installed configure ibus to use ibus-hangul and set up some shortcuts to turn it on and off and you should be away.
If you use the traditional method of installing a second language (yast - languages) you will end up with scim/skim instead of ibus and you will have a world of headaches trying to get scim to work properly.
ibus is much newer and much easier to work with than scim/skim
I have both scim and ibus , and I see the KOREAN in the panel of GnomeSUSE , but when I typing , It is written English instead of Korean
For example, I posted this post by Korean layout ! But it is Englsh as you see 
When you say that you see Korean in the panel of Gnome what do you mean. Do you see Korean in Scim or Ibus?
Sorry - I am not familiar with Gnome so don’t really know what you are talking about here - but to type in Korean Ibus or Scim will need to be running as it is these applications that let you select Korean input.
It is probably not a good idea to have both scim and ibus. I’d remove scim from your system.
Just installing ibus is not enough - once installed you need to set it up to use an input method (in my case I use Anthy for Japanese input).
If you have also installed ibus-hangul and libhangul (which you will need to also install if you want to type in Korean) then right click on ibus in your system tray and select preferences.
Click on the input method tab. There should be a dropdown box to select an input method - (in your case for Korean lib-hangul.) Select and click add.
As mentionedin my previous post - you then need to select a shortcut to turn ibus hangul off and on to select between English input and Korean input.
If you do not want to enter a shortcut then when you want to type in Korean simply open up the application that you want to write in and then right click ibus and select hangul input.
I’m really sorry , I’m confused
pls See this picture which I uploaded .
in the above has been written Korean but the keyboard is English !
See here
all you have done is specify the layout of the keys on your keyboard - it does not allow you to type in Korean.
To type in a language other than English on Linux, Mac & Windows an IME (input method editor) is required. In Linux you have the choice of two - the older scim/skim or the newer ibus. You should have one of these installed but not both.
Once you have installed you need to configure as I have mentioned previously and this will allow you to type in the language of your choice.
Here are some screenshots of my system
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4079/ibus1.th.jpg](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/ibus1.jpg/)
You can see ibus present in the system tray.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4603/ibus2.th.jpg](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/148/ibus2.jpg/)
Here I select that I would like to type in Japanese
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5581/ibus3.th.jpg](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/ibus3.jpg/)
Typing away in Japanese
If you follow the instructions in my previous post you should be able to do exactly as I do but with Korean/Hangul.
Will you please provide instructions for configuring ibus for korean and setting up the short cut key for openSUSE 11.4. I am currently doing the same things. The SCIM configuration with KDE4 does not work. Are there plans to change openSUSE from SCIM/SKIM to ibus and fix this issue so this can be configured through YaST and KDE4 with ibus? It seems strange to keep old software when there is a newer version that functions properly.
Thanks farcusnz. That was useful to me. Anyone trying to use Scim in openSUSE 11.4, kill it and go with Ibus
Hi, I’m also having trouble getting Korean input to work on my openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit) Gnome desktop.
From a clean install from the LiveCD I first set Korean as a secondary language in Yast, then removed scim and installed ibus and ibus-hangul. I also tried skipping the Yast method and directly installing ibus and ibus-hangul, but no luck. I can choose Korean as my input in ibus-setup, but I can’t switch to it using any of the mapped keys (ctrl-space, hangul key, hanja key, etc.) These are all the ibus packages installed: ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-hangul, ibus-m17n, ibus-qt, libibus2. These are the hangul packages installed: ibus-hangul, imhangul, imhangul-32bit, libhangul, libhangul-32bit.
Strangely, I never had this problem with any Fedora version and it worked in openSUSE 11.3. Would some happen to know what’s going on and how to get this working again?
sorry - I’m not too familiar with Gnome.
I would say though that almost all of the scim problems in Opensuse are KDE QT4 related - so it might just be worthwhile sticking with scim in Gnome if you can’t get ibus working.
You say you can’t switch to hangul using a mapped key / shortcut. How about if you just left click on the ibus icon - can you change to hangul this way (making sure of course that you have your cursor in an input window ready for typing).
A couple years ago I used scim in gnome but then I found ibus and it was simpler and worked better. If possible I’d like to keep using ibus because it is perfect in Fedora and openSUSE 11.3, I just wish I could find what’s wrong in 11.4. I’ve tried to trouble shoot it inside of a virtual machine, but the same problem persists.
When I click on the ibus icon in the system tray I get two options, “Korean - Hangul” and “Turn off input method,” but neither activate when I click on them. So ibus completely ignores every method of switching to Korean input. Any other ideas on how I could fix it? I already tried changing the gtk-module system files I found in a forum post, but that didn’t solve it (although it seemed to solve it for some other users.)
I just had a quick play and installed the files for input in hangul and see the same behaviour as you - so there may be a bug of some sort with the ibus hangul files - or some other trick to get it going.
I have anthy for Japanese input and it works right off without problem.
Try installing the required ibus files from this repo rather than the Opensuse Update repo and see if that helps
Index of /repositories/home:/swyear:/ibus/openSUSE_11.4
Otherwise you may need to report a bug.
감사합니다! Thanks, your suggestion worked. I added the repository in Yast and then ran “sudo zypper dup” and it pulled in all the updates.
So how can get get this fixed in the main openSUSE repository so other people don’t get this problem?
report an opensuse 11.4 bug. It will get passed on to the secondary language maintainers.
Hi, I’ve got a very big problem with opensuse 11.4 gnome and ibus.
I need to use japanese input, but every time I open ibus it says “no input window” instead of anthy…
I’ve tried to use your advices. I’ve installed all ibus files from the repository that you suggest, I’ve set japanese anthy as default language, but it doesn’t work!
I’m really desperate!
I have also tried scim, but It has many problems (It doesn’t work in firefox, so for me it’s unuseful…).
Could you help me?
Thanks
you must have your cursor in an input window ready to type. If yo do not you will only see the message “no input window”.
If you are using anthy there should be no reason to use any repo other than the official Opensuse Update repo.
Hi, thanks for your suggest, but the problem is that I get the message “no input window” even if I’ve put the cursor in a input window. ready to type.
I think that there us a problem on setting ibus as default ime, because if I digit on terminal
echo $GTK_IM_MODULE
the answer is
cedilla
maybe I’m wrong but I thing that the answer should be ibus.
Am I wrong?
I’ve noticed that the problem may be a default settings problem with gtk applications as firefox and libreoffice. If I use gedit, I can use Ibus with no problem setting Ibus as input method instead of cedilla with right click options menu.
With firefox I can’t find this option.
I’ve tried also to do this procedure, as suggested in other discussions:
su
gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
with no success…
I’ve solved (I hope) the problem
go to terminal:
gedit .bashrc
add the lines:
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
restart the system
Now it works, I hope it can continue like this!
うれしいいです！！