[Uim] Die, .uim file, die!

[Jun Inoue]

Hello again.

Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> writes:

> The .uim file that gets created on every reboot contains only one line:
>
> dave at homebase:~$ more .uim
> (define default-im-name 'anthy) ; IM-SWITCH VALUE

Hmm... aha!  You should have a file named
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_anthy and I think that's the script that's
bothering you.  Try replacing it with an empty file and see if the
problem goes away (don't forget to make a backup).

Now, supposing that that did the job, to fix the script, the whole
thing should be enclosed in if ![ -d "$HOME/.uim.d" ] - fi.  Very
likely uim-prime, uim-canna and friends have the same defect.

But I'm not sure that's the right way to fix it.  I also found the
script on my Debian box, which is somehow never executed.  So it could
be that whatever's calling the script is doing so when it shouldn't.

Oh well.  The Debian maintainer probably knows the situation better.
Let me know if it works, so that hopefully I can post it to Debian's
bug tracker.  (Or would you take the honor?)


> If I right click the UIM icon in the Gnome panel, and select
> "about...", it shows me a screen with this:
> Uim Applet for GNOME 1.0.0

Yep, that's the uim version.  I just noticed it's a bit misleading.
The number looks like it applies to GNOME.  FYI, another way to check
the version (which I *think* works on Ubuntu) is to type

    dpkg -l | grep <package name>

on the commandline.


>> If not, one thing you could try is to remove
>> .uim, set your home directory unwritable to anyone, reboot and see if
>> anything complains about permission denial.
> I tried this, but could not log in at all and had to struggle to
> regain permission to gain access to my account again.

Wow.  I'm sorry about that.  I should at least've tried it out
myself before asking someone else to do it....