Re: [Licq-devel] licq 1.0.4 plus V8_BRANCH hangs on FreeBSD 4.4

[Dirk M. <dm...@gm...>]

On Don, 29 Nov 2001, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> what is xim ?

X Input method. a protocol mostly useful for asiatic users which need to 
type in nonlatin characters. 

> how might having/not having it affect my using licq ?

Not at all. 

> where should I look to get it fixed ?

your X(free86?) port. 

> command line arguments passing to be 1.0.3-like in 1.0.4, i.e. no gui_argc
> gui_argv, instead argc and argv are passed to CLicqGui contructor and
> licqQtGui instance is created in LP_Init rather than in LP_Main, then
> everything seems to work ok even without -noxim. Strange ? or not ?

Yes, indeed. this means that the Xim support has to be executed in the main 
thread and not in the GUI thread (which was a mistake before). 

Hmm. this is weird. but if you can find out if I can add a workaround for it 
I'll do it. 


Dirk