[Uim-bugs] [Bug 36002] uim-fep is overridden by uim-xim

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Thu Apr 7 20:53:14 PDT 2011


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36002

Etsushi Kato <ek.kato at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Etsushi Kato <ek.kato at gmail.com> 2011-04-07 20:53:14 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> I recently configured uim-fep to work the way I wanted in urxvt, since I like
> the way the input is shown better than uim-xim (uim-xim displays the inputted
> text in a box halfway off my monitor, making it impossible to read).  However,
> Skype fails to work with anything but xim (as far as I have seen).  It would be
> great if you could specify uim-xim for a single application, or simply allow
> uim-fep to take precedence over uim-xim (this is seemingly possible, since
> uim-xim does exactly this - it steals priority from uim-fep).  I think it would
> be a logical step to allow uim-fep precedence over the uim-xim bridge, as
> uim-xim seems to be more of a "fallback" option.

Whether a XIM aware application connects to XIM server is dependent on an
environment variable XMODIFIERS.  So, you can set alias
urxvt="XMODIFIERS=@im=none urxvt" or such to disable XIM on urxvt.  Also, urxvt
has option -im. You can use "urxvt -im none" to disable XIM too.

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