Re: Is it possible to globally change the text input method?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:49, Al Amaral wrote:
> If you right click on gnome-terminal you can select the input method
> which is used.  The default is "default".  The last option is X11.
> If I change the input method to X11 the caps lock and num lock key
> work fine.  When it's set to "default" they are ignored...  I believe
> that these input methods are also settable in other apps which have
> text input widgets.

- "X Input Method" is not "X11"
- export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" will make that the default
- As I said, upgrade to the current version of GTK+, this problem
  has been fixed, with no need for workarounds.

Regards,
                                        Owen

> > > Subject: Re: Is it possible to globally change the text input method?
> > > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> > > To: Al Amaral <ama ska East Sun COM>
> > > Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org, gjones ska East Sun COM
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> > > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:05:46 -0400
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> > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:51, Al Amaral wrote:
> > > > We have a custom X server which replaces XFree86 and currently doesn't
> > > > have the XKeyboard extension (and we can't implement it at this time).
> > > > To get text widgets to work properly we have to change the input method
> > > > from default to X11, else the capslock and numlock keys don't work
> > > > (which sounds like a bug in the gdk libraries).  In any case, we'd
> > > > like to be able to globally change the input method to X11.  Is there
> > > > a way to do this?
> > >
> > > Not really sure what you mean "change the input method to X11" . 
> > >
> > > But in any case, the problems with no XKB are thought to be
> > > fixed in GTK+-2.2.3.