Looking for GNOME language bar (?): Want to switch input language quickly

[Warren Togami]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matthias Kredler wrote:
>> When installing Fedora 7, I included language support for
>> English and Japanese. It seems to me that the required
>> package for Japanese is there, since Japanese web sites
>> are displayed.
>>
>> My problem is the following: I would like to have something
>> like a language bar in GNOME so that I can change
>> quickly from inputting English text to inputting Japanese
>> characters in one session without having to re-boot. I
>> believe that I saw some language bar with customizable
>> keyboard shortcuts to do just that in Fedora Core 6 on
>> friends machine, but I couldn't find any reference to
>> something like this in the Fedora 7 support and when
>> searching the web.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be great!
> 
> You would need to install SCIM and its frontend depending on the desktop 
> environment you are using. Also the discussions in 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00376.html 
> might be interesting to you.
> 
> Rahul

Simply type:
yum groupinstall japanese-support

Then relogin to your desktop.  Run "im-chooser" to be sure that SCIM is 
launched.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com