opera refuses keyboard input in gutsy (SCIM related?)

[seshomaru samma]

Running Gutsy on a Dell Dimension desktop. Ever since since upgrade from Feisty , opera at times refuses to accept keyboard input , I can open new tabs and browse . I can even paste input by using the middle button of the mouse (but not ctrl+V or right-click-paste) but cannot input anything else. If I restart Opera the problem disappears but can sometimes reappear after a few minutes.. The is no special input or errors in the terminal. I installed Gutsy for my friend on a Thinkpad and he experiences the same situation. We are both using SCIM on Gnome to input Chinese/Japanese in an English language session. The reason I mention SCIM is because a similar problem was reported here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=689583 and SCIM is suggested as the culprit.

[Leon Rozanov (schekn)]

Having exactly the same problem here. My computer:
Dell Inspiron 1300 Kubuntu Gutsy 512RAM 1.6 Ghz Celeron
When was the problem first noticed?
Is there a solution yet?

[thyrc (thyrc)]

Same problem here, Kubuntu Gusty amd64 with skim. Opera (9.50 Beta 2, Build 1887) and 32-Bit Flash plugin.

Starting Opera from the shell I get a bunch of
Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libqtengine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
and
Gtk-WARNING **: Loading IM context type 'xim' failed.

After a while it says:

opera: Plug-in 6315 is not responding. It will be closed.
opera: Define environment variable OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN to keep blocked plug-ins

At this time Opera refuses keyboard input. I my case 'Plug-in 6315' is operapluginwrapper-ia32-linux.

As a workaround you could try to start Opera with: XMODIFIERS=@im=none QT_IM_MODULE=xim opera
(but you won't be able to input characters with skim or scim) or: OPERA_KEEP_BLOCKED_PLUGIN=true opera

Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim-chewing/+bug/57081

Just my two cents,

[seshomaru samma (itai1m)]

update: just installed Opera 9.5 using the deb. package from the opera website , the problem persists

[P. K. CHAN, Esq. [EditGrid] (pkchan)]

Try this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/scim/+bug/66104 . It fixes the problem on my box.

[seshomaru samma (itai1m)]

update: i'm running hardy
opera version 9.62.2466.gcc4

still same problem

[David.S.F (david13262004)]

My Ubuntu8.04LTS gets the same problem,every time I go to another desktop and switch back,it will be fixed temporarily.

[thyrc (thyrc)]

update:
I installed the Opera 10 development snapshot a few weeks ago. No problem anymore. Everthing worked right out of the box. So it is probably an Opera version < 10.x problem.

I will post details later.

[Jack Voo (vwh88)]

I am using Opera 10 in Intrepid 64 bit. I have a similar problem but not same with David.S.F, my opera problem start when i change to other desktop and then back to opera. However, it can be solved temporarily when i roll up the opera and unroll it back. Sometime has to roll up and unroll it a few times to be able to use the keyboard again.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 192648 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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