# &appname;

&appname; Panel Application Manual V&manrevision;
2004
Sun Microsystems
2004
Red Hat
Sun Microsystems

&legal;

Sun
Documentation Team
Sun Microsystems
Jens
Petersen
Red Hat
&appname; Panel Application Manual V&manrevision;
&date;

Jens Petersen

Red Hat

&appname; Panel Application Manual V2.0
August 2004

Sun Documentation Team

Sun Microsystems

This manual describes version &appversion; of &appname;.

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## Introduction

Input methods enable you to enter non-ASCII text characters in your applications. To enter a non-ASCII text character, you type a sequence of ASCII characters. IIIMF supports several different input methods.

&app; enables you to switch between input methods. &app; is also known as GIMLET: GNOME Input Method Language Enabling Tool.

### To Add &appname; to a Panel

Right-click on the panel, then choose Add to Panel Utility Input Method Switcher .

&app; displays the name of the current input language.

## Usage

### To Switch Input Methods

Perform the following steps:

1. Click on &app; in the panel.

2. Select an input method from the &app; list.

### To Add or Remove Input Methods

Perform the following steps:

1. Click on &app; in the panel.

2. Choose Add or Remove. The Add or Remove Languages dialog is displayed.

3. To add an input method, select a language from the Available languages list, then click Add.

4. To remove an input method, select a language from the Languages shown in menu list, then click Remove.

5. Click Close.

## Preferences

To configure preferences, right-click on &app;, then choose Preferences.

### Input Language

When switching applications

  Select the use the language each application was using last time option to specify that each application uses the language that the application last used, when you switch applications.

  Select the use the language currently selected in Quick Access menu option to specify that each application uses the language that is currently selected in the &app; list, when you switch applications.

When switching languages

  Select the Automatically turn on input conversion mode option to activate input methods automatically, when you switch languages.

## Setting Input method properties

&app; comes with a utility program called `gnome-im-properties` to configure several general Input Method settings independently of GIMLET.

Click on the application menu in the panel, then choose Personal Preferences Other Personal Preferences Input Method to run the utility.

### Settings

Enabling/disabling

  Select the Enable Input methods option to specify that Input methods should be used. When this is not selected Input methods are completely disabled.

Input Method Window Appearance

  Select the Enable Language Status Bar option to have the status text for the current input method displayed.

  Select the Placement of the status window to be either attached to the application window or to appear next to gimlet in the panel.

  Select the Enable Choice Lookup Window to enable the display windows of choices for input when appropriate.