In order to convert the hiragana into kanji, the Wnn JIM needs to access a font server called jserver. Almost everyone I know that is not at a university runs the server on their local Linux machine. In order for the JIM to find the dictionaries, you should set the environment variable JSERVER to localhost.
You may also need to specify JSERVER when you start up a Front End Processor such as kinput2. The kinput2 Front End Processor is more flexible than uum.
Someone on TLUG recommended I put the following in my .xinitrc file:
kinput2 -wnn -jserver localhost &
Make sure you start jserver if you intend to input Japanese:
cow# jserver Nihongo Multi Client Server (4.10) Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/kihon.dic Fid = 1 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/setsuji.dic Fid = 2 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/koyuu.dic Fid = 3 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/chimei.dic Fid = 4 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/jinmei.dic Fid = 5 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/special.dic Fid = 6 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/computer.dic Fid = 7 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/symbol.dic Fid = 8 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/tankan.dic Fid = 9 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/bio.dic Fid = 10 Reading /usr/local/lib/wnn/ja_JP/dic/pubdic/full.fzk Fid = 11 Finished Reading Files
Make sure it finds the dictionaries.
I'm using RedHat 4.0 Linux with SysV Init. I'm not sure if this is the right place to put startup files, but I startup jserver from my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file with
if [ -f /usr/local/bin/Wnn4/jserver ]; then /usr/local/bin/Wnn4/jserver fi
/tmp/jd_sockV4=. This
socket is created each time jserver is started. On a standalone
machine with only the user craig, the protection settings are:
cow:/tmp$ ls -l /tmp/jd_sockV4 srwxrwxr-x 1 wnn craig 0 Mar 9 11:25 /tmp/jd_sockV4= cow:/tmp$