I agree: This bug _must not_ remain low priority!
I've just stepped into the trap, thinking "ah nice, since I use gnome, i can
happily log out without checking for unsaved work"... and there i was, trying
to recover my openoffice document. If the feature had never been there, you
could convince
Arne Goetje wrote on 2007-10-22:
> I know that the [fedora] patch for libx11 is 'not the right patch' as upstream
> put it. But it lowers the impact for me in the meantime until we have a
> proper fix for this problem.
Choe Hwanjin wrote on 2008-01-29:
>* a patch for XIM blocking problem.
I forgot to say: Someone might have found a solution to the problem, see
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7869
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[Gutsy] scim: input freezes in various applications under XIM mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66104
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I don't understand why this bug is labelled only medium importance. It
should be critical or important, at least. The workarounds don't really
solve the problem.
This bug seriously threatens to scare off users who need multiple input methods
- they may not be the majority, but they are an importa
Ming and Arne: Thank your for the quick answers.
Arne: OK, I installed the patch (or, more precisely: I added your two
lines to my apt sources and then the automatic updater proposed to
install new versions of libx11-6 and libx11-data, which I accepted)
Some quick testing shows that I can probabl
I can reproduce the error by opening a bash terminal and hitting ctrl+shift+t
many times without pausing. When I do this, not _all_ keyboard input is
blocked:
* ctrl-shift-t and ctrl-shift-w work (open and close tabs)
* I can copy text with ctrl-shift-c
* alt-F4 works, to close the window
Anoth
Two questions concerning the dynamic workaround.
Background: I use scim to input
* korean (hangul)
* modern greek (from the m17n package)
* latin text (german, french, spanish, english) from a swiss (german) keyboard
(de/CH)
It basically works, but I suffer from the same irregular keyboard
free
