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mir91

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Registered: 2013-11-17

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SCIM no longer works after last package update

I just did the usual

sudo pacman -Syu

and now SCIM Pinyin chinese input no longer works:
When I press the hot key to enable chinese input, it only shows "English/European" in the notification bar that pops up, and I cannot enter chinese characters. Also after activating the hotkey, the backspace key suddenly no longer works anymore, until I disable SCIM again by pressing the hot key once more.

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

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Re: SCIM no longer works after last package update

Hi, which packages were updated? Open up /var/log/pacman.log and post here the log from the last update please.

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mir91

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Registered: 2013-11-17

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Re: SCIM no longer works after last package update

Thank you, actually it worked again after a reboot. (No idea why.)
I reboot this PC very very rarely, it's not supposed to be rebooted.

Last edited by mir91 (2014-07-10 02:00:07)

mir91

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Registered: 2013-11-17

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Re: SCIM no longer works after last package update

It happened again, reboot didn't help. But these instructions did. Apparently scim is just broken, since this is not really a solution, just a bad workaround.
http://eastasiastudent.net/china/mandar … art-pinyin