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Kurous

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From: Victoria BC

Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 36

Openoffice crashing and you use scim? [SOLVED sorta]

Hi,

Openoffice wasn't working for me for quite awhile and I really couldn't figure out why. Unfortunately the "rest" of the world uses the .doc format and with Office to export to PDF I was getting upset (btw: OFFtopic, but is there a command line doc 2 pdf converter? if not...is should hack the ooffice code and make one

So I finally ran soffice in gdb and found out where it was segfaulting, and it was happening right after a call to scim. The easy fix is to just disable scim for GTK apps, which works for me as I only use scim to chat in chinese on Kopete. But I really wish I could just use it in ooffice anyway, if anyone else finds a better solution please post it! Is there per app configurations for using scim?

So find your input settings

export LANG="en_US"
export LC_CTYPE="zh_TW.Big5"
export LC_COLLATE="C"
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

and change the GTK line

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

That will stop all GTK apps from using SCIM

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bsdson.tw

Member

From: Taiwan

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 161

Re: Openoffice crashing and you use scim? [SOLVED sorta]

I use Open-office seldom, and in my memory,
it's always working, below is my settings:

export XMODIFIERS="@im=SCIM"
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"

besides, I only set the locale to zh_TW.UTF-8 in rc.conf.

Hope that helps.

Kurous

Member

From: Victoria BC

Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 36

Re: Openoffice crashing and you use scim? [SOLVED sorta]

Okay, I'll have to try that out.

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I just want to be a moderately intelligent monkey that wears a suit.... That's why I've enrolled in business school!