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skim package

scim panel stuck in gtk, cannot switch back to scim-panel-kde

Bug #109827 reported by Premier
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Bug Description

Scim panel is stuck in scim-panel-gtk mode. Scim panel opens different configuration windows in gtk and kde mode. Unlike the kde configuration window, the gtk window does not appear to have a method to switch back and forth. Deleting ~/.scim is not a fix. Reinstalling does not help. Also, uninstalling scim caused my computer to be unusable (all text based applications hang on startup.) killall scim-panel-gtk && scim-panel-kde will simply reload the gtk panel.

To reproduce: go into the kde configuration window and switch the scim panel to gtk. Then close the window, reload scim, and observe that it is now in gtk mode. Then right click on the scim icon in the system tray, and chose scim-setup. Observe that under "Panel" there is only one option: GTK. There is no method to return to kde.

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Premier (premiersullivan) wrote :

I may have found a fix for this: killall scim-panel-gtk scim-launcher && scim-panel-kde
then go to the configuration window (now kde) and switch to kde.

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Ming Hua (minghua) wrote :

The "KDE configuration window" you mentioned belongs to skim, so I am reassigning this bug.

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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

As far as I know, you have to add the following lines to ~/.scim/global to activate skim:

/DefaultConfigModule = kconfig
/DefaultPanelProgram = /usr/bin/scim-panel-kde

Hope this helps...

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta?

Changed in skim:
status: New → Incomplete
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hardhu (qzerty) wrote :

I can say this about 8.10 i386 beta: if I start a Gnome session, everything is ok. If I start a kde session, it hangs after a while, and switching to a console, with 'ps ax' I can see multiple lines with scim-panel-gtk. So my system becomes quite slow, and I am forced to kill manually scim-launnher and scim-panel-gtk to have the startup process completed.

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Duane Hinnen (duanedesign) wrote :

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I noticed the package your bugging is updated in Maverick. Does this occur in it? If so, please feel free to mark this bug as new. Thanks in advance!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for skim (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in skim (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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