Re: skim and option reloading

Hello,

Mike FABIAN wrote:
>Tobias Burnus <[email protected]> :
>> used input methods: I can call reload from the menu plus call --reload.
>>    
>After that your new hotkey settings should be active. At least that
>works fine for me. Do you experience problems already here?
>  
Changing hotkeys - at least from the commandline - works,
enabling/disabling the input methods does not.

>>If I choose exit, it restartes but the hotkey does no longer work.
>>    
>Better don't use that exit button in the scim-panel, as it kills scim.
>GTK2 and QT applications (which use scim via the input module plugin
>support) will restart scim, but old-style X applications which use
>scim via XIM will not restart scim. And such XIM clients like xterm,
>mlterm, java, (X)Emacs, ... will often hang if their XIM server is
>suddenly killed.
>  
Ok. That is what I see.

>Restarting everything scim related cleanly is indeed a bit difficult.
>I often have the problem that the scim-panel-gtk behaves
>strangely after a
>
>    killall scim-launcher; killall scim-panel-gtk;
>    scim -d
>
>often some buttons are missing or the fonts are too small.  Killing
>scim-panel-gtk once again often helps.
>  
Hmm, maybe a scim-restart script would be useful, killing skim as well.

>>I think I will stay with scim and try very hard _not_ to set options
>>which require the restart of scim since this seems to cause problems.
>>    
>There are options which do indeed require a restart and then it may
>become a bit difficult if you want to avoid to restart your X session
>(usually works for me though. But sometimes I need to kill and restart
>several times).
>  
Ok. I'll try your advice on what to kill and what not.

>Zhe Su, the scim author does a wonderful job with scim, although there
>are still some minor bugs, I think it is great already and a huge
>improvement over the input methods we used by default for SuSE Linux
><= 9.1.
>  
Yes, I wagely remember a user for whom I setup a Chinese input system;
it was only for Chinese, more cumbersome to use and to setup and didn't
look as sleek!


Tobias

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