9. IBus

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created : 2010-02-20 updated : 2010-02-20

IBus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS

Note : this page is mainly written in English with the exception of a few Chinese Characters.

Installing IBus to the BLFS system had been a time demanding process for me. I had to resolve all the dependencies in the process of building. This was not an obvious task and a lot of web surfing was involved. Finally I figured out the correct dependency tree and build order for the project.

In order to have a functioning IBus, I chose six commonly used packages from the project home page as target building candidates. They are :

1. ibus : the core engine

2. ibus-table : support the table based input method such as cangjie(倉頡) and wubi(五筆)

3. ibus-table-cangjie : table for the cangje input method

4. ibus-pinyin : a phonetic input method (拼音)

5. ibus-table-cantonese : Another phonetic input method in Cantonese

6. ibus-table-xingma : five strokes input method (五筆)

Here comes the dependency :

ibus depends on gnome-common, intltool, gtk-doc, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl,gconf, ORBit2,dbus,dbus-python,dbus-glib,iso-codes, PyGTK,pygobject,pycairo,pyxdg,libnotify,Notify-python,librsvg,libart_lgpl,popt,libxml2,libgsf,libcroco,gnome-python-desktop,python, gtk

ibus-table depends on pysqlite,sqlite

ibus-pinyin depends on libsigc

And this is one of the working building order :

0. gtk, python, libIDL, Pango, SQLite (previously built, see the firefox page)

1. gnome-common

2. intltool

3. docbook-xml

4. docbook-xsl

5. gtk-doc

6. ORBit2

7. gconf

8. dbus

9. dbus-glib

10. dbus-python

11. iso-codes

12. ibus

13. pygobject

14. pycairo

15. PyGTK

16. pyxdg

17. pysqlite

18. rebuild python (for pysqlite support)

19. ibus-table

20. ibus-table-cangjie

21. libnotify

22. Notify-python

23. libart_lgpl

24. popt

25. libxml2

26. libcroco

27. libgsf

28. librsvg

29. gnome-python-desktop (for pyrsvg support)

30. rebuild gtk (for librsvg support)

31. Libsigc

32. ibus-pinyin

33. ibus-table-cantonese

34. ibus-table-xingma

How I found out the above dependency and the build order would be another long story, which can be found in the appendix below.

Now, let's start the building process :

gnome-common-2.28.0

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-common/2.28/gnome-common-2.28.0.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf gnome-common-2.28.0.tar.bz2

cd gnome-common-2.28.0

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m8.576s

user 0m0.820s

sys 0m5.004s

Tips : Nearly every build in this page will generate a log file. Keep the building log for trouble shooting.

intltool-0.40.6

Get Source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.40/intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2

cd intltool-0.40.6

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m10.956s

user 0m1.272s

sys 0m7.416s

Install documentation :

install -v -m644 -D doc/I18N-HOWTO \

/usr/share/doc/intltool-0.35.5/I18N-HOWTO

docbook-xml-4.5

Get Source :

wget http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.5/docbook-xml-4.5.zip

Unpack source :

mkdir docbook-xml-4.5

cd docbook-xml-4.5

unzip ../docbook-xml-4.5.zip

Install :

install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 &&

install -v -d -m755 /etc/xml &&

chown -R root:root . &&

cp -v -af docbook.cat *.dtd ent/ *.mod \

/usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5

Create (or update) and populate the /etc/xml/docbook catalog file by running the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -e /etc/xml/docbook ]; then

xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/docbook

fi &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML CALS Table Model V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/calstblx.dtd" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//DTD XML Exchange Table Model 19990315//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/soextblx.dtd" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Information Pool V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbpoolx.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML Document Hierarchy V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbhierx.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ELEMENTS DocBook XML HTML Tables V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/htmltblx.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Notations V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbnotnx.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Character Entities V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbcentx.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML Additional General Entities V4.5//EN" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/dbgenent.mod" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \

/etc/xml/docbook &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \

/etc/xml/docbook

Create (or update) and populate the / etc/ xml/ catalog catalog file by running the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -e /etc/xml/catalog ]; then

xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog

fi &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegatePublic" \

"-//OASIS//ENTITIES DocBook XML" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegatePublic" \

"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateSystem" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateURI" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog

Backwards Compatibility :

for DTDVERSION in 4.1.2 4.2 4.3 4.4

do

xmlcatalog --noout --add "public" \

"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V$DTDVERSION//EN" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/docbookx.dtd" \

/etc/xml/docbook

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \

/etc/xml/docbook

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION" \

"file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" \

/etc/xml/docbook

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateSystem" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog

xmlcatalog --noout --add "delegateURI" \

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/$DTDVERSION/" \

"file:///etc/xml/docbook" \

/etc/xml/catalog

done

docbook-xsl-1.71.1

Get source :

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.71.1.tar.bz2

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-doc-1.71.1.tar.bz2

Unpack source :

tar xvf docbook-xsl-1.71.1.tar.bz2

tar xvf docbook-xsl-doc-1.71.1.tar.bz2

cd docbook-xsl-1.71.1

Install :

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1 &&

cp -v -R VERSION common eclipse extensions fo highlighting html \

htmlhelp images javahelp lib manpages params profiling \

slides template tools website wordml xhtml \

/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1 &&

install -v -m644 -D README \

/usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.71.1/README.XSL &&

install -v -m755 RELEASE-NOTES* NEWS* \

/usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.71.1

Install documentation :

cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.71.1

Create (or append) and populate the XML catalog file using the following commands as the root user:

if [ ! -d /etc/xml ]; then install -v -m755 -d /etc/xml; fi &&

if [ ! -f /etc/xml/catalog ]; then

xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog

fi &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \

"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.71.1" \

"/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \

"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.71.1" \

"/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \

"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \

"/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1" \

/etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \

"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \

"/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.71.1" \

/etc/xml/catalog

gtk-doc-1.13

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk-doc/1.13/gtk-doc-1.13.tar.bz2

unpack and go to the source tree :

tar xvf gtk-doc-1.13.tar.bz2

cd gtk-doc-1.13

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m2.558s

user 0m6.900s

sys 0m48.275s

ORBit2-2.14.17

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ORBit2/2.14/ORBit2-2.14.17.tar.bz2

(Note : Version 2.14.7 as suggested in BLFS 6.3 didn't pass the compiler, so I used 2.14.17 instead)

Unpack :

tar xvf ORBit2-2.14.17.tar.bz2

cd ORBit2-2.14.17

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr \

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 5m36.751s

user 0m49.267s

sys 4m31.989s

GConf-2.18.0.1

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/GConf/2.18/GConf-2.18.0.1.tar.bz2

unpack source :

tar xvf GConf-2.18.0.1.tar.bz2

cd GConf-2.18.0.1

build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \

--libexecdir=$(pkg-config \

--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/lib/GConf \

--mandir=$(pkg-config \

--variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/share/man &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 5m43.717s

user 0m47.427s

sys 4m28.557s

dbus-1.2.20

Get source :

wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.2.20.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf dbus-1.2.20.tar.gz

cd dbus-1.2.20

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 3m53.988s

user 0m32.174s

sys 3m1.351s

To complete the installation, generate a uuid for the system :

dbus-uuidgen --ensure

dbus-glib-0.84

Get source :

wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.84.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf dbus-glib-0.84.tar.gz

cd dbus-glib-0.84

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m52.557s

user 0m15.705s

sys 1m28.042s

dbus-python-0.83.0

Get source :

wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-python/dbus-python-0.83.0.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf dbus-python-0.83.0.tar.gz

cd dbus-python-0.83.0

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m50.055s

user 0m12.797s

sys 1m29.458s

iso-codes-3.11

Get source :

wget ftp://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-isocodes/iso-codes-3.11.tar.bz2

Unpack source :

tar xvf iso-codes-3.11.tar.bz2

cd iso-codes-3.11

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make pkgconfigdir=/usr/lib/pkgconfig install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m8.119s

user 0m13.833s

sys 1m29.326s

ibus-1.2.0.20100111

Finally, we could start building the first package of ibus.

Get source :

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-1.2.0.20100111.tar.gz

Unpack :

tar xvf ibus-1.2.0.20100111.tar.gz

cd ibus-1.2.0.20100111

Build and install:

time {

./autogen.sh --prefix='/usr' --sysconfdir='/etc' --libdir='/usr/lib' --enable-gtk-doc &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 5m6.557s

user 1m21.729s

sys 3m21.093s

pygobject-2.20.0

Get source :

wget http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/pygobject/2.20/pygobject-2.20.0.tar.bz2

(Note : newer version required newer glib, which I didn't have.)

Unpack :

tar xvf pygobject-2.20.0.tar.bz2

cd pygobject-2.20.0

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m11.615s

user 0m17.241s

sys 1m41.546s

pycairo-1.8.8

Get source :

wget http://www.cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.8.8.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf pycairo-1.8.8.tar.gz

cd pycairo-1.8.8

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m49.195s

user 0m5.856s

sys 0m38.458s

pygtk-2.14.1

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.14/pygtk-2.14.1.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf pygtk-2.14.1.tar.gz

cd pygtk-2.14.1

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 4m14.532s

user 1m18.621s

sys 2m28.413s

pyxdg-0.19

Get source :

wget http://www.freedesktop.org/~lanius/pyxdg-0.19.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf pyxdg-0.19.tar.gz

cd pyxdg-0.19

Build and install :

time {

python setup.py install

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m1.786s

user 0m0.108s

sys 0m0.528s

pysqlite-2.5.6

Get source :

wget http://pysqlite.googlecode.com/files/pysqlite-2.5.6.tar.gz

Unpack source

tar xvf pysqlite-2.5.6.tar.gz

cd pysqlite-2.5.6

Build and install :

time {

python setup.py install

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m8.915s

user 0m0.856s

sys 0m6.164s

In order to have sqlite3 support in python, we must build pysqlite before building python. Since python was previously built, we must rebuild it now :

python-2.6.4

Get source : (should already done previously)

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2

Build and install :

time {

sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" \

setup.py &&

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&

make &&

make install

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 10m8.294s

user 1m38.514s

sys 7m17.715s

We don't have to rebuild the documentation, but in case you want to know the instruction, see here.

ibus-table-1.2.0.20091113

Get source :

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-table-1.2.0.20091113.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf ibus-table-1.2.0.20091113.tar.gz

cd ibus-table-1.2.0.20091113

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m27.604s

user 0m3.252s

sys 0m20.241s

ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100119

Get source :

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100119.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100119.tar.gz

cd ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100119

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m5.926s

user 1m19.929s

sys 0m42.551s

At this point, we would have changjie input method ready, but the language panel didn't show up, so go on with the installation.

The language panel is a python program which depends on notify-python, which in turn, depends on libnotify.

libnotify-0.4.5

Get source :

wget http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/libnotify/libnotify-0.4.5.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf libnotify-0.4.5.tar.gz

cd libnotify-0.4.5

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m37.899s

user 0m18.841s

sys 1m58.423s

notify-python-0.1.1

Get source :

wget http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/notify-python/notify-python-0.1.1.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf notify-python-0.1.1.tar.bz2

cd notify-python-0.1.1

The original source didn't support the function attach_to_status_icon().

Apply a workaround suggested in http://trac.galago-project.org/ticket/121 :

rm src/pynotify.c

(The file removed above would be automatically regenerated. )

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m16.380s

user 0m9.253s

sys 1m2.136s

At this point we are almost complete. We have some working input methods and the language panel is showing up.

But the icons in the panel are not correctly shown. This is because the icons in ibus are in SVG format.

This requires librsvg to be built. SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. This is an xml format and hence librsvg depends on libxml.

To have full SVG support, we have to build libart_lgpl, popt, libxml2, libcroco, libgsf before building librsvg.

ref : http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Librsvg

libart_lgpl-2.3.20

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libart_lgpl/2.3/libart_lgpl-2.3.20.tar.bz2

unpack :

tar xvf libart_lgpl-2.3.20.tar.bz2

cd libart_lgpl-2.3.20

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m16.071s

user 0m9.165s

sys 0m56.188s

popt-1.15

Get source :

wget http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.15.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf popt-1.15.tar.gz

cd popt-1.15

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib &&

make &&

sed -i "s@$^libdir='$.*@\1/usr/lib'@g" libpopt.la &&

sed -i "s@$^libdir='$.*@\1/usr/lib'@g" .libs/libpopt.lai &&

make usrlibdir=/usr/lib install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m8.707s

user 0m4.684s

sys 0m28.290s

libxml2-2.7.6

Get source :

wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz

Unpack :

tar xvf libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz

cd libxml2-2.7.6

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 8m17.792s

user 1m42.034s

sys 5m59.770s

libgsf-1.14.16

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgsf/1.14/libgsf-1.14.16.tar.bz2

Unpack source :

tar xvf libgsf-1.14.16.tar.bz2

cd libgsf-1.14.16

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 3m3.641s

user 0m23.541s

sys 2m27.153s

libcroco-0.6.2
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libcroco/0.6/libcroco-0.6.2.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf libcroco-0.6.2.tar.bz2

cd libcroco-0.6.2

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libcroco-0.6.2/examples &&

install -v -m644 README docs/usage.txt /usr/share/doc/libcroco-0.6.2 &&

install -v -m644 docs/examples/*.c /usr/share/doc/libcroco-0.6.2/examples ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m39.567s

user 0m21.433s

sys 2m11.108s

librsvg-2.26.0

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/2.26/librsvg-2.26.0.tar.bz2

Unpack source :

tar xvf librsvg-2.26.0.tar.bz2

cd librsvg-2.26.0

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-svgz --enable-mozilla-plugin=no &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 3m22.570s

user 0m28.850s

sys 2m49.511s

We still need two more packages to support the SVG format, gnome-python-desktop (which provides rsvg module) and gtk (rebuild).

gnome-python-desktop-2.29.1

Get source :

wget ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-python-desktop/2.29/gnome-python-desktop-2.29.1.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf gnome-python-desktop-2.29.1.tar.bz2

cd gnome-python-desktop-2.29.1

Build and install : (We need rsvg only, hence disable all then enable rsvg).

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-allbindings --enable-rsvg &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m33.056s

user 0m8.461s

sys 1m8.248s

Now I have built all packages required for SVG support. But unfortunately, in order to build firefox, I had built gtk previously.

The makefile of gtk was clever enough to omit the SVG support since I didn't have librsvg built. I had to rebuild gtk now to enable SVG support.

gtk+-2.18.5

Get source : (should have done previously)

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.18/gtk+-2.18.5.tar.bz2

Detailed instruction described in this link. Below I just repeat the build instruction.

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&

make install &&

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.18.5/{faq,tutorial} &&

cp -v -R docs/faq/html/* /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.18.5/faq &&

cp -v -R docs/tutorial/html/* /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.18.5/tutorial &&

install -v -m644 docs/*.txt /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.18.5

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 46m11.009s

user 6m30.308s

sys 36m16.164s

If you are a changjie user like me, you can stop building here and go directly to the configuration section.

Since a lot of user is using pinyin, I describe the building procedure below.

ibus-pinyin depends on libsigc, which would be the next package to be built.

libsigc++-2.2.3

Get source :

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.2/libsigc++-2.2.3.tar.bz2

Unpack :

tar xvf libsigc++-2.2.3.tar.bz2

cd libsigc++-2.2.3

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 4m42.642s

user 0m28.486s

sys 3m39.982s

ibus-pinyin-1.2.99.20100212

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-pinyin-1.2.99.20100212.tar.gz

Unpack source :

tar xvf ibus-pinyin-1.2.99.20100212.tar.gz

cd ibus-pinyin-1.2.99.20100212

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 2m1.793s

user 0m13.113s

sys 1m36.166s

Before going to the configuration section, I built two more input methods for evaluation purpose. The Cantonese input method and the five stokes input method.

ibus-table-cantonese-1.2.0.20100107

Get source :

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-table-cantonese-1.2.0.20100107.tar.gz

Unpack :

tar xvf ibus-table-cantonese-1.2.0.20100107.tar.gz

cd ibus-table-cantonese-1.2.0.20100107

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 0m18.960s

user 0m6.788s

sys 0m8.945s

ibus-table-xingma-1.2.0.20100111

Get source :

wget http://ibus.googlecode.com/files/ibus-table-xingma-1.2.0.20100111.tar.gz

Unpack :

tar xvf ibus-table-xingma-1.2.0.20100111.tar.gz

cd ibus-table-xingma-1.2.0.20100111

Build and install :

time {

./configure --prefix=/usr &&

make &&

make install ;

} 2>&1 | tee log.txt

real 1m30.259s

user 0m49.423s

sys 0m35.898s

Configuration :

The assumptions here is you have read and followed the instruction in these pages :

1. Add ibus-daemon to the startup script of fluxbox (vi ~/.fluxbox/startup):

(add the following before the line exec fluxbox)

ibus-daemon --xim -d

2. If you have created an cxterm alias in ~/.bashrc, remove it.

vi ~/.bashrc

Find and remove the line :

alias cxterm="LANG=zh_TW.utf8 xterm -name cxterm"

3. Instead of using command alias, create a cxterm script in /usr/bin

cat >/usr/bin/cxterm <<"EOF"

export LANG=zh_TW.utf8

export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

xterm -name cxterm &

EOF

Make it executable :

chmod 755 /usr/bin/cxterm

I still keep xterm as English console, because searching web for English error message is sometime more efficient.

If I want to start application that support Chinese, I start cxterm, and then start application such as vi and firefox inside cxterm.

Then I can input Chinese in vi or firefox.

4. Restart computer, startx, start cxterm, execute ibus-setup inside cxterm.

ibus-setup

5. You can always check the ibus process status :

ps -ef | grep ibus

foo 15735 15518 0 11:30 pts/3 00:00:17 /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --xim

foo 20037 15735 0 12:58 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-gconf

foo 20039 15735 0 12:58 pts/3 00:00:06 python /usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py

foo 20041 1 0 12:58 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/ibus-x11 --kill-daemon

foo 20042 15735 0 12:58 pts/3 00:00:01 python /usr/share/ibus-anthy/engine/main.py --ibus

6. Make all necessary setting inside the GUI of ibus-setup (select hotkey, preferred input method)

7. Restart X (by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace), or restart computer if you want a more clean environment.

8. Start cxterm again, you should be able to input Chinese inside cxterm and vi

9. start firefox inside cxterm, you should be able to input Chinese inside firefox.

firefox &

Appendix :

How I found out the dependency and building order.

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