Intrepid: SCIM Loads On Startup, Won't Close

[Jeremy LaCroix]

Binary package hint: scim

After updating today, SCIM is loading up with my computer. The icon appears in the GNOME taskbar. If I right click and click "exit", it disappears and then reappears 0.5 seconds later. I cannot close it.

I am not using any non-english languages. I'm using 64-bit Intrepid. SCIM should only load if requested to.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

This is a software design issue and apparently can't/won't be fixed any time soon.

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't understand, this wasn't a problem before.

Arne Goetje wrote:
> This is a software design issue and apparently can't/won't be fixed any
> time soon.
>
>

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Jeremy LaCroix wrote:
> I don't understand, this wasn't a problem before.
>

oh, sorry, I misuderstood.
Actually, on my Intrepid system I cannot reproduce your problem. It
works like expected, scim is not started if the 'enable complex
character support' checkbox in language-selector is not checked.

Have you upgraded from Hardy?

Maybe this one helps:

sudo im-switch -Z all_ALL -a

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

Both of my Intrepid installs were clean installs. I solved this problem
by removing scim from synaptic, however I don't know if that has any
other unexpected consequences.

Arne Goetje wrote:
> Jeremy LaCroix wrote:
>
>> I don't understand, this wasn't a problem before.
>>
>>
>
> oh, sorry, I misuderstood.
> Actually, on my Intrepid system I cannot reproduce your problem. It
> works like expected, scim is not started if the 'enable complex
> character support' checkbox in language-selector is not checked.
>
> Have you upgraded from Hardy?
>
> Maybe this one helps:
>
> sudo im-switch -Z all_ALL -a
>
>

[MarkD (mark-daglish)]

I had the same problem this morning. After running sudo apt-get upgrade and rebooting (177 updates including new kernel image) the SCIM icon appeared for the first time ever in the panel and wouldn't die. In addition it seemed to disable the use of F12 to activate yakuake. Like Jeremy, removing SCIM with synaptic solved the problem and yakuake is working again.

This was under kubuntu intrepid with compiz on x86_64 by the way.

Mark

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting. I think this may be fixed in 1.4.9 which is about to be released in Karmic. Please verify.

https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/hardy/+sourcepub/678492/+listing-archive-extra

[Jeremy LaCroix (jlacroix82-deactivatedaccount)]

I will verify as soon as I install Karmic. I am not testing 9.10 yet.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Bug 283583] Re: Intrepid: SCIM Loads On Startup, Won't Close
> From: Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden>
> Date: Tue, July 21, 2009 9:30 am
> To: <email address hidden>
>
>
> Thank you for reporting. I think this may be fixed in 1.4.9 which is
> about to be released in Karmic. Please verify.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/hardy/+sourcepub/678492/+listing-
> archive-extra
>
> ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
>
> --
> Intrepid: SCIM Loads On Startup, Won't Close
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283583
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

You don't have to switch over to Karmic to test. I have prepared 1.4.9 packages as they are about to be shipped in Karmic in my PPA. They should run in any release past hardy.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Jeremy replied to me privately that he is not seeing this issue anymore. I'll close the ticket with status invalid since it's never been set to confirmed. Please feel free to reopen with more information if this is still an issue. Thank you for making us aware of this problem and please report any future problems you encounter.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

setting to fix released since there were others confirming the issue