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Asked: 2026-06-12T02:50:55+00:00

On my Ubuntu box, I installed the City input method (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/imf/spi-tutorial.html) by copying the

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On my Ubuntu box, I installed the City input method (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/imf/spi-tutorial.html) by copying the CityIM.jar file to jre/lib/ext of my jdk. Then launch a swing application (for exampe freeMind), putting focus on a text field, opening the system menu of the application, but I don’t see any “Select Input Method” menu item on that menu as said in http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/imf/spi-sample/CityIM.html

Do you have any idea why I can see that menu item? Thanks.

Environment info:

  • Ubuntu desktop
  • Jdk 1.6.0_21 “standalone” e.g. the bundle downloaded directly from
    Oracle site, not the jdk install via ubuntu apt-get
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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a feature of some java environments, that the system menu does not include the Select Input Method item. For example Linux, Solaris, applets inside a browser. There is an article about it at javadesktop.org:
    Input Method Selection by a Hot Key.

    For all platforms there is a possibility to have a hotkey triggering input method selection menu, so for Ubuntu this is the only way of setting it. In the article mentioned they offer InputMethodHotKey.jar, which is a nice gui for configuring this hotkey. I verified, it works on Debian.

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