[ubuntu-in] SCIM not able to activate in 11.10

[Swarup]

On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 19:17 +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've installed 11.10 on my just acquired netbook (specs below).
> > Everything is working wonderfully but for one problem: I have installed
> > SCIM and SCIM-m17n, but can't get SCIM to become active i.e. to appear
> > and start working. I went into the SCIM setup utility and checked
> > everything, then logged out and back in several times. But nothing seems
> > to get it to run. Any ideas? I really need SCIM in order to do my work
> > on this computer...
> 
> AFAIK, the default input method in GUI is ibus these days. You may not
> need to install scim at all. Check ibus preferences form System ->
> Preferences.

Many thanks for your tip. I was unaware about ibus, as 9.04 is still
running on my laptap and in that distribution scim was the main input
method. 

I now have ibus up and running in 11.10 on the netbook. But the problem
I face is that when I type in Hindi, the spacing of letters is abnormal.
It adds spaces where I am not putting them. For example, if I type
"हिन्दी", then it will appear in gedit as "हि न्दी". So it is putting
spaces in the middle of words as well as placing extra spaces between
words. How can this be fixed?

Cheers,
Swarup