Comment 7 for bug 90043

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:54:27AM -0000, Keli Hu wrote:
>
> I just had a fresh install of feisty on a new PC, and the problem
> cannot be reproduced by the steps I provided before. But still you can
> reproduce it by the following steps:
>
> 1. Open a terminal and run "im-switch -s scim_xim". This way you set
> xim to the default.
> 2. Logout and login.
> 3. Open nautilus, try to rename any file/folder, or press Ctrl-L to
> bring out the location bar and type anything you want, then you'll
> find the problem.

Thanks for testing.

> BTW, I never had this kind of problem on Debian etch/sid either.

That's probably due to the different configuration settings in Debian
and Ubuntu. Ubuntu changes a few settings in /etc/scim/config, while
Debian ships the upstream default. I never had time to do a detailed
test, though.

> Also
> if I just use the default settings of scim, I had problems entering
> Chinese in firefox sometimes, typically in a gmail chat box when
> trying to type a series of Chinese characters.

This is probably the (claimed) libX11 bug related to scim's
/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic setting. Redhat bugzilla [1] has more
information.

1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7869

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2007.06.22