Please tell me about this problem. I might be able to help you. I hardly use GMONE and Mozilla on the Linux. (But I use Netspape 6(6.2.1) on the MS-Windows.)

I usually use KDE(and Konqueror) on the Linux.

Let's see... I'm running Galeon 1.0.3/Mozilla 0.98. I basically cannot input into any Japanese text box which shows up in the browser. I am able, however, to input Japanese into Galeon's own text boxes for system settings, etc. The problem seems to lie with Mozilla. I'm going to try the newest version of Mozilla. Another possible problem is that I think I used RedHat rpms on my SuSE install. I'm going to try again with the newest version of Galeon/Mozilla. Thanks for writing, Eric __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/

Mike Fabian writes:

ピアス エリック writes:

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Please tell me about this problem. I might be able to help you. I hardly use GMONE and Mozilla on the Linux. (But I use Netspape 6(6.2.1) on the MS-Windows.)

I usually use KDE(and Konqueror) on the Linux.

Let's see... I'm running Galeon 1.0.3/Mozilla 0.98. I basically cannot input into any Japanese text box which shows up in the browser. I am able, however, to input Japanese into Galeon's own text boxes for system settings, etc. The problem seems to lie with Mozilla. I'm going to try the newest version of Mozilla. Another possible problem is that I think I used RedHat rpms on my SuSE install.

Why don't you try the SuSE rpms for Mozilla and Galeon then? I tested them on SuSE Linux 7.3 and SuSE Linux 8.0 and Japanese input always worked fine.

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I'm going to try again with the newest version of Galeon/Mozilla.

In case you wonder where to get the latest updates of Mozilla packages for SuSE Linux 7.3, they are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/0.9.8/7.3/ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/0.9.9/7.3/ Don't forget to run SuSEconfig after updating the Mozilla rpms! I've not yet tested 0.9.9 but I have tested 0.9.8 on SuSE Linux 7.3 and 8.0 and Japanese input works. -- Mike Fabian http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

ピアス エリック writes: [...]

When I was bringing up kinput, the kana-conversion box would pop up in the lower left-hand corner and kinput would (still does) take the focus away from whatever text entry box I was trying to type Japanese into. So anything I tried to type went to never-never land. I just need to reclick the entry box after bringing up Kinput, and it works fine. I'm guessing it was working like this before as well. I just didn't think to refocus the cursor (because I haven't encountered this problem before).

Now I see. I know that it causes problems when the windows popped up by kinput2 get focus. I didn't have this problem with the mode window of kinput2 at the lower left of Mozilla, this window did never get focus on any of my SuSE Linux systems. But the focus problem is also annoying when one uses the features of kinput2 which pop up additional windows, for example the special symbol input as descrribed on http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/kinput2-canna-special-symbo.html These additional windows should never get focus, if they do the characters don't appear in the window where one wants to type Japanese until this window gets focus again. For some applications (e.g. gvim) it did even cause more serious problems. In gvim Japanese input became impossible as soon as the special symbol window got focus and received some keystrokes and one had to restart gvim. I fixed this for SuSE Linux 8.0 by adding the following lines to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2 *SeparateConversion.input: false *selectionShell.input: false *auxShell.input: false Please add them to your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2. These options avoid that the windows titled 'Kana-Kanji Conversion' 'Candidate Selection' 'Auxiliary Control' get focus. This works with most window managers except blackbox and WindowMaker, these two have a bug in focus handling and ignore these app-defaults settings. On top of that, blackbox and WindowMaker also give focus to the kinput2 mode window at the lower left of Mozilla which results in the problem you describe. Are you using blackbox or Windowmaker? With all the other window managers/desktops, the kinput2 mode window doesn't get focus, only blackbox and WindowMaker seem to have this problem. So with blackbox and WindowMaker you have to take care manually to keep the focus where you want to do Japanese input. -- Mike Fabian http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

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On top of that, blackbox and WindowMaker also give focus to the kinput2 mode window at the lower left of Mozilla which results in the problem you describe. Are you using blackbox or Windowmaker? Yep, that's it. I'm running WindowMaker. I just checked Mozilla via KDE, and it worked fine (i.e., didn't steal the focus). Everything else I use under WMaker (Gjiten, Xemacs, rxvt...) doesn't lose focus, so I'll just live with Mozilla as it is.

In case of the other programs (Gjiten, XEmacs, rxvt, ...), the problem with the kinput2 mode window doesn't occur because the mode window is opened without a frame in those cases. But even for those programs the focus problems with the 'Auxiliary Control' window remain. I had already reported this problem to the blackbox developers, they acknowledged that it is a bug in blackbox and said they will fix it. Today I reported it to the WindowMaker developers too, so I guess it will eventually get fixed for WindowMaker as well. -- Mike Fabian http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。