[SCIM] SCIM on kde does not work with firefox

[Zhe Su]

Hi,

  Did the firefox is installed by yourself? If yes, then it's a known
binary compatibility issue between scim and firefox. You may recompile
and install firefox from source code to resolve it.

Regards
James Su


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:10:47 +0800, Franklin <franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:40:05 +0000
> 
> 
> Mark Marszal <blueillusion at dccnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, i am using gentoo linux and kde 3.3
> > I installed scim, rebuilt my qt and all apps. All input methods work
> > fine on all gtk and qt apps. Except Firefox does not work with scim.
> > When i righclick to select my input method, the select input method bar
> > does not show. This only happens in firefox. Any clues why?
> > here is my xinitrc
> >
> > export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
> > export LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.eucJP"
> > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
> > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
> >
> > Thank you for your help
> > -Mark
> 
> Try if the following settings works.
> 
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
> export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
> 
> When I installed Mandrake 10.1 the first time (using KDE 3.2)
> I met similar problems too.  Everytime I launch firefox or firefox installer,
> it crashed.
> 
> After changing GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE to xim,
> it fixed automatically. :-)
> 
> Good Luck.
> Franklin
> 
> 
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