We have a substantial AIR application that supports Japanese input. On 32 bit Suse Linux 11.1, we could invoke scim by putting the focus on a text input field and doing ctrl-space. That would bring up a small scim window on the lower right, and we could enter some Japanese in the field. Now we have moved to 64 bit Suse Linux 12.1 (and 12.3), and ctrl-space doesn't seem to do anything any more in our flex application, or even a tiny application that consists of only 1 text area. This is with AIR 2.6.0-19120. scim will come up with the same tiny test app on 11.1 though (w AIR 2.6.0-19170). On the 12.1 and 12.3 systems scim will come up for other applications, such as just a konsole window, Firefox, or Eclipse, all of which I can type Japanese text into using scim.
I realize AIR on Linux is no longer officially supported, but if anybody knows how to make this work, I'd love to hear about it. I've tried various environment variable settings, but haven't found the right one(s) yet.