User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5 Build Identifier: I use a newly installed Fedora 9 system with XFCE. Since I'm a Chinese speaker I rely heavily on scim, an input method engine. However, xfce's setting manager never seems to coexist well with it. If I have scim running, xfce-show-setting would not work at all: it exits with status 0 immediately after started, generating no output nor dialogue boxes. I tried killing xfce-mcs-manager by hand and run xfce-setting-show, and the Setting Manager did show up, but scim *sometimes* got crashed too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start xfce4 from Fedora's gdm login screen 2. select Chinese locale 3. login with xfce Actual Results: If scim is on, xfce setting cannot be displayed. Expected Results: xfce setting should be ready all the time There's a possible workaround as I described above (killing xfce-mcs-manager and run xfce-setting-show again), but it is not stable and sometimes crashes scim.
This is the output after killing xfce-mcs-manager with SIGKILL and run xfce-setting-show: $ xfce-setting-show ** Message: This build doesn't include support for XF86Misc extension ** Message: Querying Xkb extension ** Message: Xkb extension found ** Message: Querying XINPUT extension ** Message: XINPUT extension found ** Message: Querying Xkb extension ** Message: Xkb extension found and the setting manager window popped up.
I don't know if it's related at all, but scim and gtk apps don't seem to get along well. I don't know if gtk or scim is at fault (or maybe some combination of the two) though. Here's some related (or not) stuff to consider: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-April/024326.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2008-05/msg08141.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pinentry/+bug/176815
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