Not sure what happened to the rest of my post. Here's the rest. >this write-up and foweolld the directions for Ubuntu 8.10 even though I have 9.04 installed, as that was the farthest along direction set they had.It works good, but I can't seem to get the key bindings in the SCIM settings to take hold for switching between Hiragana, Katakana, and Latin. It's a bit of a pain to use the mouse to switch it when you're typing away.Having done the setup on all 3 OSes, I have to say Mac makes it the easiest and is very pain-free. Windows XP was kind of a pain and I'm slowly figuring out the keyboard shortcuts for switching modes. I likely won't be using Japanese much in Ubuntu so the keyboard shortcuts won't be much of an issue there.Good job getting it setup in FreeBSD. I may give that OS a try one day. I've been curious about it since OSX is built on top of it.