[SCIM] Re: skim kde autostart (was: skim 1.0.0 released)

[LiuCougar]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:08:20 +0200, Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> wrote:
> LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com> さんは書きました:
> 
> > I agree the user should be able to modify this in the configure
> > dialog of skim. This will be implemented in next release.
> 
> Thank you very much. I have extracted this feature from your CVS and
> added it as a patch to the skim package for SuSE Linux 9.2 (I cannot
> update to your 1.0.1 release anymore as we are in the beta phase
> already).
> 
> >> Even when Autostart=false, skim will still start because of the KDE
> >> session management if it had been started before, i.e. to really
> >> prevent it from starting again, one also has to kill it before logging
> >> out.
> 
> > I think a better way to achieve this is to disable session management
> > in skim when Autostart=false . what's your opinion please?
> 
> Yes, I think that is a good idea and it seems to work fine.
> 
> I found another problem though, which is probably a problem of scim
> rather than skim:
> 
> 1) disable the automatic start of skim with the KDE session using your
> improved setup dialog.
> 
> 2) restart the KDE session (QT_IM_MODULE=scim is set in the
> environment).
> 
> Now scim-panel-gtk starts and the scim symbol appears in the kde
> taskbar.
> 
> That's OK, because we wanted to disable skim.
> 
> But let's assume that we change our mind now and want to use skim
> again.
> 
> Starting skim on the command line doesn't work because the scim panel
> is still running:
> 
> linux at f142:~> skim
> Cannot create SocketServer. Maybe a panel is still running...
> linux at f142:~>
> 
> OK, that's normal. But now I want to stop the skim panel.  I click on
> the scim keyboard icon in the KDE taskbar with the right mouse button
> and choose "Exit". The scim panel exits but immediately starts again.
This is a feature of scim-lib ;)

> That means the only way I can make skim start again is to edit
> 
>     ~/.kde/share/config/skimrc
> 
> with a text editor and change
> 
>     [General]
>     Autostart=false
> 
> into
> 
>     [General]
>     Autostart=true
Yes, I predicted this situation and the "-f" option is meant for this:
you can use
skim -f
to start skim even if scim-panel-gtk is running

after the user change the settings, just reenter X (make sure
scim-panel-gtk and scim-launcher are all stoped before reenter X)

Regards,
-- 
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