[Scim-user] [ scim-Bugs-1435894 ] cannot input sometimes

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Bugs item #1435894, was opened at 2006-02-21 20:58
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Category: IMEngine: Smart Pinyin
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: ZeeGeek (zeegeek)
Assigned to: James Su (suzhe)
Summary: cannot input sometimes

Initial Comment:
sometimes it's unable to input in neither Chinese nor
English in GTK2 programs like Gaim. I have to switch to
"Default" Input Method in the typing box of those
programs in order to input in English. Restarting the X
may make it work. But it's annoying.

I'm using Debian Sarge. I installed scim from the
Debian repository. However, some of my friends using
the latest stable version of Ubuntu complain about the
same problem, too.

My environment variables:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
export QT_IM_MODULE=xim

And I started scim by putting "scim -d" into the
startup file of X.

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Comment By: edgaribsen2 (edgaribsen2)
Date: 2006-10-08 05:25

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Nice find! I had been looking all over for similar bug 
reports that actually helped me workaround the bug (until 
I stumbled upon the solution myself). I guess this bug is 
safe to close?

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Comment By: Jens-Ulrik Petersen (juhp)
Date: 2006-10-06 16:05

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This is a known issue which was discussed on Scim-devel list
in August (see the thread "XIM protocol mismatch between
scim and xorg").

It seems to be a regression in modular xorg-x11 libX11.
Apart from using async, the only other known "workarounds"
are avoiding XIM in gtk and qt apps.

See also
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201284>.

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Comment By: edgaribsen2 (edgaribsen2)
Date: 2006-10-04 06:45

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I also used to have this bug, and it annoyed the hell out 
of me. However, I think I've found the solution.

I guessed that it had something to do with XIM (since it 
freezes when I select "XIM" as the input method), so I 
poked around the skim settings, which had a box especially 
for XIM under the "X Window" section. I noticed 
that "Dynamic Event Flow" was unchecked, so I checked it. 
After that the lockups seem to be gone.

I have no idea what "Dynamic Event Flow" is or even what 
the relation between XIM and Scim is, but hey, it seems to 
work, and that's all that really matters :)

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Comment By: CourtJester (courtjester)
Date: 2006-03-25 00:57

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I see this periodically on my SuSE 10.0 system running
1.4.4. If I switch to another IM, then I can continue to
type. I will monitor this a bit more closely and see if I
can come up with a repeatable scenario.

Doug.

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Comment By: Lamda (lamda9)
Date: 2006-03-24 19:49

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This always happens in Fedora Core 5 when I try to rename a
file in nautilus by selecting "Rename" in the context menu.
I just cannot input anything in the text box. Even the arrow
keys are not functional. 

In other Gtk programes, this happens sometimes, though not
as frequently as in renaming files in nautilus.

Switching to fcitx instead can prevent this issue.

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Comment By: ZeeGeek (zeegeek)
Date: 2006-02-22 13:58

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Is there anyway that I can let scim output some debug
information? fcitx always works fine, but I like scim
better, so I really want to make it work.

Thank you.

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Comment By: James Su (suzhe)
Date: 2006-02-22 10:51

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I can't reproduce this issue on my system.

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