Typing Chinese in English Ubuntu 14.04

1. Open Terminal


2. aptitude install scim scim-tables-zh  (and dependencies)
3. Logout or restart
4. right-click input area and select "Input Methods", change from "X input Method" to "SCIM Input Method".


5. Ctrl-spacebar should give you a scim toolbar

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Update:

scim seems to be a soon obsoleted input method and it crashed on Chrome while I was running in 14.04.  Now I tried ibus and it seems to work pretty well (yet).  

• In "Language Support", select "IBus" in Keyboard input methold system.
• Install / Remove Languages... select traditional Chinese
• In "Text Entry", click "+" to add Input sources (Chinese (cangjie3)
• In "Input Method", choose IBus
• change the keyboard shortcut, my own preference is Ctrl+Space
• make sure to check the box "Show current input source in the menu bar"

You probably need to logout/login to take IBus in effect

screen and nohup

Not long ago, I introduced nohup to let a program continue executing after you exit or logout from your ssh session..

then not long after that, I introduced screen for UART/COM/serial communication

then I found out, using "screen" is a much wiser choice.
Simply flow are as follow:

1. create a screen
2. execute whatever you want to run, probably something like a server
3. detect a screen (ctrl-a, d)

There you go. Server will continue to listen after you log off your ssh session.

In case you want to go back to that screen, just re-attach it

1. list screen (screen -ls)
2. re-attached the screen (screen -r [screen name])
3. there, ctrl -c to quite your program or server or whatever, then type exit to exit the screen

Displaying remote X clients

This will allow you to ssh to a server and prompt x windows:

$ export DISPLAY=:0.0

and

$ ssh -Y username@remove_server_ip

Remember the -Y option, it enables trusted X11 forwarding.

OSX UART serial terminal

In OSX, turn on the terminal, plug in your FTDI USB-serial dongle, you should see a new usbserial device created under /dev.  Use "screen" to start the session, remember to state the baudrate at the end of the command:

$ screen /dev/cu.usbserial-FTVLVQ6M 115200

To detach:

Ctrl-a d

To re-attach:

$ screen -r

To kill the screen:

Ctrl-a k