Typing in pinyin in the GIMP text tool

[kake]

Hello! I want to make myself an icon along the lines of the pretty-coloured text ones that blnchflr did a tutorial for, but I've run across a small problem.

I'm using GIMP 2.6.7 on OS X 10.6.2, and I cannot get the text tool to let me type in pinyin, nor can I get it to admit that I have Chinese fonts installed. Has anyone here got any experience in making this work?

Edited to add: Sorted thanks to ewx and dragonwolf (see comments).

Comments

[ewx]

Apple’s dreadful X11 (which OS X Gimp uses) doesn’t listen to the standard character or keyboard viewers, but you can paste from those into a terminal and then from the terminal into X11. I know next to nothing about Chinese language issues so apologies if this is answering the wrong question.

[kake]

Ah, I did try copy-pasting — I should have mentioned that. I can't seem to paste into X11 at all — in xterm it completely ignores the cmd-v, while in GIMP I just get the "v". The character viewer and keyboard viewer I get from clicking the flag in the top OS X menubar don't seem to be able to paste into X11 either (clicking "Insert" does nothing).

[ewx]

Try middle-click pasting.

[kake]

It worked, it worked, it worked, you genius! Thank you!

(I had to look up how to do middle-click pasting — I found it in X11 Preferences -> "Emulate three button mouse", then hold down Option when clicking.)

[ewx]

There is an OSX-native GTK+ under development, so we might get a Mac Gimp that’s better integrated at some point in the future. Wouldn’t like to say when though!

[dragonwolf]

Have you tried using CTRL instead of CMD (for all shortcuts) when in Gimp? If I remember right, one of the biggest complaints the Apple community has with X11 apps is that it's not integrated enough, including the shortcut keys.

(If you're not familiar with non-Mac computers, CTRL is the non-Mac key for shortcuts. For the common shortcuts, CMD in Mac nearly always maps to CTRL in non-Mac.)

[kake]

Oh, nice one, thank you! CTRL-v does indeed work to paste!