Latest 8.10 updates mess up KDE

[P Kapat]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Nigel Ridley
<nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:45:19 pm Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>> I just did an update on my boys box and now there are all sorts of problems
>>> with KDE. Apps take ages to load - if they actually do....
>>
>> Trying doing a "ps -e" from the console - you may find hundreds of scim daemons
>> running. If so Doing a killall will fix the immediate problem but it will
>> return next boot.
>>
>> Not sure what the easy fix is :( I fixed it by reinstalling from scratch.
>>
>
> I tried the killall thing but scim kept coming back to life. So, I uninstalled it and now no more
> problems.

On a RedHat EL5 machine for KDE3, ~/.xinputrc has the following lines
(uncommented). Since I do not have root access on this machine (hence
cannot uninstall), I commented them and things work fine. Though
starting any gui application from the command line always gives a one
line warning from SCIM.

## DO NOT DELETE THIS
#XIM=SCIM
#XIM_PROGRAM=scim
#XIM_ARGS="-d"

#XINPUT_AUX=/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/aux

#SCIM_BRIDGE_GTK=${XINPUT_AUX}/scim-bridge-gtk
#if [ -r "${SCIM_BRIDGE_GTK}" ]; then
#  . ${SCIM_BRIDGE_GTK}
#else
#  GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
#fi
#unset SCIM_BRIDGE_GTK

#SCIM_QTIMM=${XINPUT_AUX}/scim-qtimm
#if [ -r "${SCIM_QTIMM}" ]; then
#  . ${SCIM_QTIMM}
#else
#  QT_IM_MODULE=xim
#fi
#unset SCIM_QTIMM

#unset XINPUT_AUX


-- 
Regards
PK
--------------------------------------
http://counter.li.org  #402424