Hi, it's me again, just forgot to mention: many qt processes spit such lines on the console: e.g. eric, qgit: QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim resulting from a qDebug statement from line 309 in ./plugins/src/inputmethods/imsw-multi/qmultiinputcontext.cpp This is rather annoying.. Pete