[SCIM] Re: skim 1.0.0 released

[James Su]

Hi,
  It seems that skim does not support multi-display very well. The gtk 
panel support multi display and screen without problem, you may have a try.

Regards
James Su

Mike FABIAN wrote:

>Hi Cougar,
>
>I tried to start skim automatically with the KDE session by
>adding
>
>    skim -d
>
>to /etc/X11/xim which is sourced by /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (this is
>on SuSE Linux).
>
>When doing that, I run into a problem with a DCOP server error
>message though.
>
>The screen shot at
>
>    http://lisa.goe.net/~mfabian/misc/skim-20040910/skim-dcop-server-error.png
>
>
>show the dcop server related  error message dialog box.
>
>As I run in Japanese, part of the error message is in Japanese.  The
>Japanese part means:
>
>    Please make sure that the "dcopserver" program is running!
>
>This dialog box with the DCOP server error message stays until the
>user closes it by clicking the OK button, only after that skim really
>starts. That means if the user clicks this button late when the whole
>kde session is already up, the input won't work in the applications
>which have been started already.
>
>When clicking away that box, skim starts but this is too late for the
>mlterm visible on the same screen shot.
>
>First I thought this problem happens only on slow machines, but
>actually I can reproduce it on any machine now. The reason why
>I could not reproduce it on my fast machine is due to
>another problem:
>
>scim is already running on display :0 (which uses fvwm as the
>window manager and does not use skim, only scim). When I start
>a second X11 session on display :1 using kde with
>
>    startx kde -- :1
>
>skim doesn't start, it complains that a scim panel is already
>running. But that panel is for display :0 and should not disturb the
>X11 session on display :1. Shouldn't it be possible to use
>skim on display :1 even if scim is already running on
>display :0?
>
>  
>