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Bugs item #1668290, was opened at 2007-02-25 02:59 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by leggewie You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=650539&aid=1668290&group_id=108454 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: 1.4.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: ejstans (ejstans) Assigned to: ryo-dairiki (ryo-dairiki) Summary: dead-key characters don't work Initial Comment: After starting scim/skim, I can no longer type "dead-key" characters such as ~^"`' in xterm. Strangely they work in mlterm but appear immediately when the button is pressed so I can't place them over other characters such as ñ for example. I am 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Rolf (leggewie) Date: 2012-09-19 03:48 Message: Unless I misunderstand the bug report, this seems to work fine for me in Ubuntu Lucid. Can you please verify if this is still a problem in the latest releases? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ryo-dairiki (ryo-dairiki) Date: 2009-02-14 00:57 Message: I'm not sure, but do you mean that? You use English, French, and Some Asian Language on your PC. (I'll assume it as Chinese for now) You just enable SCIM by Ctrl-Space when you use Chinese. However, when you disable it, SCIM switches to "English/Keyboard", which doesn't support dead keys. You want to use "English/European" instead when SCIM is disabled. If so, I will prepare such features in the next release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Simos Xenitellis (simos) Date: 2009-02-04 15:49 Message: I think the same bug affects users that did not intend to use complex input methods. See the report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468590 It would be great if you could provide some input at this report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Charles Welton (rockyspirit) Date: 2009-02-04 12:41 Message: This also happened with my Gentoo system, SCIM(no SKIM) version 1.4.5, Qt 3.3.8 and Qt 4.3.3. My keyboard layout is abnt2. How I fixed this: I removed my ~/.scim directory and restart X. After that, dead-keys worked. Configured SCIM and dead-keys stopped working. The reason was that I had removed the IMEngine for English. After I enabled it back, dead-keys worked again. This also happened in a Ubuntu 8.04 system. Apparently, SCIM needs the IMEngine for English enabled so that dead-keys work properly with Qt. GTK+ has no such problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mathieu Jobin (somekool) Date: 2008-07-03 18:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=637588 Originator: NO I will go ahead and sympatize with you guys ... I am actually one of yours and still totally with you deeply in my heart. now let's face it. How many french dude (which need dead keys) use Linux (and KDE) and also need an input method system such as SCIM to write in our favorite asian language of our choice. I am afraid we are the only ones. we are alone. and the developers won't ever care. french SCIM users are the slightest percentage of the population. I have been experiencing this bug for more than 2 years. and the last post on this bug is a year old. I guess everybody did the same as I did and moved on to some other OS where it has some kind of population. sad to see people givin' up ? well hey, 1997-2007, that's just enough patience to see a desktop get ready. I'll keep watchin' ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michal Suchanek (hramrach) Date: 2007-08-23 04:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=404997 Originator: NO With 1.4.4 dead keys work when dynamic events are turned off but it breaks wine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michal Suchanek (hramrach) Date: 2007-08-23 03:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=404997 Originator: NO On Debian testing with scim 1.4.7 dead keys do not work with dynamic events either enabled or disabled (/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic). I can no longer find the setting in the gtk config panel. Turning off dynamic X events breaks wine, it locks up when a menu or button is pressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ejstans (ejstans) Date: 2007-08-14 14:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1728362 Originator: YES Turning off Dynamic X Event makes dead-key characters work for me... What is "Dynamic X events" and why does it eat dead-key chars? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michal Suchanek (hramrach) Date: 2007-04-17 23:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=404997 Originator: NO For me dead keys do not work with scim 1.4.4 on Debian, and they sometimes do with scim 1.4.5 on Gentoo. It is possible to write them with English/European input method. However, using this input method is far from convenient. One has to - enable scim - select the method with mouse (or configure and memorize a key shortcut) If the dead keys worked when scim is not enabled (ie the panel is hidden in the default setup) scim would be much easier to use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: zir0faive (zir0faive) Date: 2007-03-20 04:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1731164 Originator: NO After toggling the "dynamic X event" option on, it appears that dead keys will only work if I choose "Français/Clavier > Français/Européen" (French/Keyboard > French/European) as input method. They still won't work when setting input method to "Clavier" (Keyboard). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: LiuCougar (liuspider) Date: 2007-02-28 01:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=600121 Originator: NO try toggling one option in scim-setup: dynamic X event ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: zir0faive (zir0faive) Date: 2007-02-28 01:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1731164 Originator: NO The same goes for me. I add to the list of non-working dead-keys the ¨ character, useful in french. I'm using: Debian Etch/Sid, KDE 3.5.5, Xorg 7.1.0, scim 1.4.4, skim 1.4.4 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=650539&aid=1668290&group_id=108454 |