1. Open system System>Administration>Language Support
2. and check Hindi to install required locale files
3. then log out (System>Quit>Log Out), and login again.
Note : You should already be able to use SCIM Hindi input in a few applications, like gedit (Application>Accessories>Text Editor), by right clicking on the document, then selecting Input Methods>SCIM Input Method. However, it won't work in the others, like Open Office.
However you can setup SCIM to work with Other Applications with given method
The recommended method to set up SCIM input is to create 75scim file under /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ with following lines (if you have 90im-switch, better to remove it for this setup)
export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/scim -d"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
* After your setup, restart at least your X session. (ctrl-alt-backspace!)
Note :- you need to install scim-qtimm and skim to get it working on Kde
sudo apt-get install scim-qtimm skim
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