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SCIM on Ubuntu

I've been struggling with getting the Input Method to work for Japanese on my Ubuntu installation (Gnome). I finally found this little, seemingly insignificant addition to the process:

Well, I had this kind of problem recently when I installed Ubuntu 9.04. SCIM
was showing on tray but was not triggering after pressing the shortcuts. I
have solved this problem at last.

If you have similar type of problem too, go to System > Administration  >
Language Support and check the option "Use the input method engines (IME) to
enter complex characters". Then restart you x-org server by pressing Ctrl +
Alt + Backspace.
So, after installing Japanese support and adding Anthy as one of the inputs in SCIM, I finally have the ability to type in Japanese again! One problem I'm still working on - the hotkeys are somewhat tricky and don't match the old standby IME from MS. MS is a lot of bad things, but I'm used to their IME and I'd like to at least get my hotkeys to match. The problem is, I can't find a way to set something to activate with just the control keys (Shift + Ctrl, for example). It requires me to use another key in addition. It also doesn't seem to let me use Shift_L or something similar, even though the defaults do... I'll have to continue investigating. For now, I'm ok with just being able to type again - huge improvement!
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