scim doesn't play well with focus-follows-mouse

[Pete Ryland]

I mainly use English, but I'm learning Japanese, so require inputting Japanese from time to time. For the past few years, I've gotten very used to im-ja input method and scim just seems so complicated and hard to use in comparison. Besides which it seems must slower and crashes all the time. But my main complaint is that it's impossible to set the right language when using focus follows mouse because the popup on the bottom right goes away when going past another window. Also, pressing escape doesn't get back to normal input mode like one would expect. Oh, and its settings seem to be global, so for example, I can't have my gjiten window use jp and another window use en and go back and forth between them without changing the settings every time, nor does it remember that gjiten should always be using jp input method.

[atie (atie-at-matrix)]

Subscribed ubuntu-cjk-testers to ask Japanese testers' confirmation of this report.

[Jun Kobayashi (jkbys)]

Pete, could you try the following setting?
 1. Launch SCIM Setup([System]-[Preferences]-[SCIM Input Method Setup]).
 2. Select [FrontEnd]-[Global Setup] on left pane.
 3. Check off the "Share the same input method among all applications".
 4. Restart gjiten and other applications.

Atie, Thank you for your help.

[Pete Ryland (pdr)]

Ok, cool. That does indeed fix that particular problem. Thanks.

But this bug report is more about the problem that users of focus-follows-mouse get with multiple windows open (perhaps I should have created multiple reports, sorry). If, for example, I have gjiten open, using scim, in the top left of my screen, and an xterm in the bottom right, and I would like to change scim settings, my pointer will likely pass through the xterm causing it to get the focus and therefore I lose the scim popup.

[Malcolm Scott (malcscott)]

Confirmed here (latest hardy). This makes SCIM essentially unusable.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Please retry with scim 1.4.9.

[Vish (vish)]

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