I haven't been able to test it with Karmic/Lucid but I will give it a try
when I can.

thanks,
Juan

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is this still a problem with the new eclipse 3.5.1 in Karmic/Lucid (9.04
> and 9.10 respectively).
>
> ~Niels
>
>
> ** Changed in: eclipse (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> SCIM disturbs keyboard focus
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293001
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in SCIM: Unknown
> Status in “eclipse” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “scim” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: scim
>
> Ubuntu 8.10 (but the same problems occured in 8.04LTS)
> SCIM 1.4.7-3ubuntu10
>
> Sometimes, when multiple applications are in use, or when applications
> produce popups, the keyboard focus is lost. One then has to force the
> keyboard focus to move to another application (say, another terminal) then
> move it back to the original application.
>
> While this seems to act up haphazardly, there seems to be a way to reliably
> reproduce the error:
> * activate SCIM for your locale (using im-switch) and restart the session
> (there is no need to actually run a SCIM input method; it suffices that SCIM
> is active)
> * start Eclipse
> * start typing away a small Java program including:
> System.out.println("something")
>
> When you start typing System., Eclipse will attempt autocompletion (show a
> list of members of the System class), then when 'out' is selected, it will
> print a list of members of the PrintStream class.
>
> When it does so, Eclipse has lost keyboard focus. Even if one clicks in the
> Eclipse window, Eclipse does not see keyboard action. It's impossible to
> type anymore in Eclipse unless one starts another application, clicks in it
> to force focus to go into that other application, then clicks back into
> Eclipse.
>
> If one disables SCIM, Eclipse does what it's supposed to do: if the user
> continues typing, then what the user types goes into the editor window.
>
> The problem is independent of the window manager (tried with Metacity,
> Sawfish, and KDE's window manager). The problem occurs with other
> applications than Eclipse, including gnome-terminal, but with Eclipse the
> problem can be reproduced reliably.
>
> Other people seem to have the same problem, see http://hrstc.org/node/21
>

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SCIM disturbs keyboard focus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293001
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