Comment 31 for bug 243344

Nick B wrote:
> FWIW having upgraded to Karmic, this happens all the time when I start
> my work machine now. So many programs loaded from session it's hard to
> say which is at fault, it might be firefox or thunderbird or eclipse or
> nautilus, who knows.
>
> What does happen is all text input gets sluggish afterwards, at least
> until I kill -9 scim-bridge (which doesn't last long as it seems to
> respawn).
>
> Might just go ahead and uninstall the whole thing until this is fixed :(

does deleting ~/.scim/ help?

BTW: we switched over to IBus for Karmic, you could give it a try.
Just run System->Administration->Language Support and select ibus as
your preferred keyboard input method framework. After restarting your
session, you should have IBus working. What you need to do then, is to
right click on the keyboard icon in the notification area, choose
Preferences, select the Input Method tab and add the input methods you
like. That is, select them from the combobox and click the Add button.
Then you can use IBus like you used SCIM before.