Input Method Server Basic Properties

The Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment starts the htt input method server automatically when you start the Solaris operating environment in a locale that requires an input method. htt continues to run and service applications that are started and connected to it. If you need to restart htt, refer to "How and When htt Is Started".

Simplified Chinese Solaris applications that use htt for Simplified Chinese character input typically find htt running when they are started. To get htt's service for language input, htt should be running before an application is started. If htt is not running when an application is started, the application may not be able to get the input service, even if htt is started later.

Three htt Processes

The input method server comprises three related programs (htt_props, htt, and htt_server) processes running together. One process controls the input method server properties, another controls the population of the input method server (that is, a "watch dog" process), and the third handles input methods of clients.

Usually, you don't need to know the details of these three processes. When htt is started, htt_props and htt_server start also.

htt Application Display

The following figure shows a typical application display when using the htt input method.