Ok, I did install Ubuntu(finally!) and it worked pretty fine!

Since it was the first linux other than previous red hat boxes, it was kinda scary since I thought only red hat was interested in user-friendly environment.

But while installing and changing some configurations, I realized that this linux is really close to the product that is ‘acceptable’ for regular users.

Anyway, since I wanted to type Korean characters under the English environment, I had to some configurations.

Frankly, I spend sometime to work on the Korean input program. I used to use nabi, but there was SCIM which looked great. But it didn’t understand my keyboard correctly, and it even didn’t start at first! (since my default language was English.)

this site contains THE solution that I had.

The second problem was, even though I was successful in starting and using SCIM, still I had to use ctrl+space to change the input character. I wanted to use my Korean/English & Hangul/Hanj keys.

I DID try a lot of things that can affect the global range in the box. (But I really didn’t need to since I am the only user for this laptop.)
Anyway, I changed a file [kr] at [/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/]

partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols “hangul_keys” {
include “us”
name[Group1]= “Korean”;
key<RALT> { [ Hangul ] }; //
key<RCTL> { [ Hangul_Hanja ] };
};

which used to be……………..

partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols “hangul_keys” {
include “us”
name[Group1]= “Korean”;
key<F71> { [ Hangul ] };
key<F72> { [ Hangul_Hanja ] };
};

Now it works almost perfect!!!!

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2007-01-05: fixed the < and > problem which caused the last two configurations look same. (didn’t thought about the escape characters)