[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 80551] Rant, Workaround

[Alexander Hunziker]

Unfortunately, there seems to be no activity in order to fix this. If
I'm not mistaken, mostly everybody using a fairly recent ATI graphics
card is experiencing this bug, at least for systems where SCIM is
installed.

So far, the easiest workaround that I have found is to call the
applications with the environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE set to "xim".
In the case for OpenOffice, it's very easy to change the startup script
(/usr/bin/ooffice) - just add "GTK_IM_MODULE=xim " in front of the last
line. For applications like f-spot or Gizmo Project that also suffer
from this bug, one can create a startup script that changes the variable
before launching the program.

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openoffice fails to start if scim is the default GTK_IM_MODULE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80551
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