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#93 Strange behaviour: input turns off suddenly in some apps
Sometimes, i haven't exactly found out the circumstances, the application stops to react to any keyboard keys, so i have to restart the application. It happens mostly with QT-applications (e.g. Opera), especially when i switch workspaces with hotkeys in my WindowMaker (0.92). The behaviour doesn't depend on what's written in /etc/profile (either QT(GTK)_IM_PROFILE="scim" or "xim"). There's nothing in logs.
Slackware current, X.org 6.9.
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What version of scim?
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The latest one, 1.4.5. Scim-anthy-1.2.2, anthy 8327.
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This happens to me too!
I'm using OpenSuSE 10.2 with KDE Release 3.5.5 "release 45.2", Xorg 7.2.0 RC 2, scim 1.4.5, skim 1.4.5 (compiled with libscim 1.4.5). All installed via YaST and official repository.
It mostly happens when I switch between applications such as xterm and firefox with ALT+TAB.
The "focus" can be returned by eg opening a new xterm and typing some text there and then switching back to the original xterm. Any fix or more convenient workaround would be much appreciated!
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This is probably not actually a bug in scim but rather in Xorg's libX11:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7869
which I hope will be fixed *soon*, because it really is annoying.
A partial work-around suggested on I-don't-remember-which mailing list
was to set the /FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic option to true (in /etc/scim/config,
or ~/.scim/config or perhaps ~/.kde/share/config/skimrc depending on
what you use). This won't fix the problem altogether, but it becomes a
lot less severe.
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For me scim sometimes gets disabled when I switch applications. I configured scim 1.4.4 (on Debian xorg 7.2) with share input method between all applications. That way once it is enabled it is enabled in all applictions.
However, when I switch to different applications with keyboard the scim panel sometimes disappears and only limited latin input works. Switching to another application and back usually fixes the problem.
Applications like Firefox that cause heavy cpu load while redrawing seem to be affected more often.