[SCIM] Re: skim 1.0.0 released

[LiuCougar]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:50:46 +0200, Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> 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.
Hope I have fixed this. Please have the latest CVS head a try.

> 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?
I am afraid in current framework of scim, that separate panels for
separate displays is impossible. Because the socket server does not
depend on the display, only one socket server can be established.
Regards,

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