I found the problem in my case. It has to do with the combination of fglrx opengl, scim, and open office... kind of weird, and that's why it took me so long to figure out. Apparently this is a LONG existing problem since Dapper or older.
The scim-bridge workaround here works: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/80551
I found the problem in my case. It has to do with the combination of fglrx opengl, scim, and open office... kind of weird, and that's why it took me so long to figure out. Apparently this is a LONG existing problem since Dapper or older.
The scim-bridge workaround here works: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ scim/+bug/ 80551
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