Hello, I'll just started to use skim/scim (first for my first steps in Chinese and as support for the Chinese members in our group). (I've the new version from projects/m17n/ on a SUSE Linux 9.2 system with de_DE.UTF-8.) In the skim configuration dialog I can enter keyboard shortcuts to enable/disable scim and to change to the next input, but they don't seem to be effective. Is there a simple method to disable/enable scim completely? I mean in a way I can quickly re-enable it. I tend to hit Shift+space rather frequently and get then some nice characters, e.g., instead of leaving vi (":q"). At "Scim server|input methods" of Skim config, I can enable/disable input methods, but it does not seem to have any effect on both the menu shown by the kicker applet or on the methods shown when cycling through. What is the difference between Keyboard and German/Keyboard>German/European by the way? Question of the complete novice in Chinese: Next to the input parameter field I see with "intelligent pinyin" a button labeled "中" and three other symbols still unknown to me. What is ment by those? By the way, I'll completely miss a description of how the input methods work. I figured out that, e.g., unicode works by entering the entering the hex code of the character, but what means "unicode", "utf-8", "de" next to it? Tobias