Peter Niessen
the .xim hint at the end did the trick!
OK, but that disables scim for that specific user. It's strange why it didn't work with scim. You don't need to care if Compose works well enough for you though. If you want to find out why scim didn't work for you, you may read on and try a few more things:
- Which scim related packages do you have installed? Check with 'rpm -qa | grep scim'.
scim-1.2.0-4
That is the only one?
- Is scim running when you have started your X-session? Check with 'ps aux | grep scim', this command should list two processes called scim-launcher and possibly other scim related processes like 'scim-panel-gtk, scim-helper-manager, ...'
Yes: two scim-launchers.
- What happens if you type "Shift+Space" or "Control+Space"? If scim is running and working correctly, a scim or skim panel should pop up, showing the currently selected input method.
On the shell, I get just a " ", and on the desktop, I walk through the icons printer, network browsing, ...
So scim is somehow not working correctly for you.
Now that you have disabled the automatic start of scim in your ~/.xim
file, you can easily try to start scim manually from a terminal and
see if there are some error messages. Just type
scim
and see if error messages are displayed.
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Mike FABIAN