[SCIM] Re: skim 1.0.0 released

[Mike FABIAN]

James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:

>   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.

Yes, I know, I have used scim with the gtk-panel already on multiple
displays. Therefore I was disappointed that this doesn't work
with skim.

Can this be fixed in skim?

> 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?

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian at suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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