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Comment 17 for bug 80551

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HeresJohnny (eitel-john) wrote : Re: [Bug 80551] Re: openoffice fails to start if scim is the default GTK_IM_MODULE

Yes, I'm using SCIM with OOo without any special tuning. And I'm using
ATI's drivers, too. I've never heard of SCIM-bridge, and as far as I
know, I'm not using it. Does that help?

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:24 +0000, Alexander Hunziker wrote:
> Ming Hua: the use of scim-bridge of course is the best option. To begin
> with, on the homepage (http://www.scim-im.org/projects/scim_bridge) is
> stated that it has been created to circumvent this problem. I don't
> really understand what exactly *IS* the problem, if somebody feels like
> explaining what a "C++ ABI transition" is, I'd be happy to listen... So,
> the file /usr/bin/ooffice can be changed to:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export OOO_EXTRA_ARG=''
> GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge /usr/lib/openoffice/program/ooqstart "$@"
>
> HeresJonny: so you are using OpenOffice + SCIM without special tuning
> and it won't crash? Do you use ATI's fglrx on top of that? Is your
> system configured to use plain SCIM or scim-bridge?
>