I'm currently runing Fedora Core 2 Test 3 (With all the near daily yum updates).

I'm a New Zealander in Tokyo, so while I use an English X session, I also need to be able to input Japanese. I've got this working on my laptop and went through the following steps to do it:

- Have tested Japanese input in gedit and firefox and it works

Install these packages:
xinitrc

iiimf-protocol-lib-devel
iiimf-server
iiimf-client-lib
iiimf-client-lib-devel
iiimf-docs
iiimf-csconv
iiimf-gtk
iiimf-protocol-lib
iiimf-x

iiimf-le-inpinyin
iiimf-le-xcin
iiimf-le-canna
iiimf-le-hangul

Change these files:

Add this to /etc/htt.conf
AccessControl permit 127.0.0.1

Add this to /etc/hosts.allow
htt_server: 127.0.0.1

Add these to your .bash_profile

export XMODIFIERS=im=htt
export GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8

Restart these:
Restart /etc/init.d/IIim
Restart your X Session.

(If you're only using a Japanese Gnome X Session, you can skip the .bash_profile section)

Thanks for all the work guys. This was a whole lot easier than all the hair pulling I went through to get this stuff to work in earlier releases of Redhat a few years back.

-- Side note. Fonts are a little ugly in some apps after doing this.

Cheers

Matt