Re: GTK 2. and immodule problem.

[Zarick Lau <zenithlau i-cable com>]

Hi,

That's great, I do think that, using ctype value to determine the default IMModule is a good approach.

Also, thanks for the "GTK_IM_MODULE="gtk-im-context-simple" hint, it definitely what I'm looking for :)

Regards,
Zarick

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 22:59, Owen Taylor wrote: 
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:29, Zarick Lau wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I've just upgrade gtk to 2.2.4 from 2.2.1 a few days ago, and I notice
> > a strange behaviour.
> > 
> > Before the upgrade, it seems that the gtk will not take any IM module
> > as default
> > but after the upgrade, it keeps using a immodule scim as the default
> > im module.
> > 
> > The env. setting for mine is follows.
> > 1. LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > 2. LC_CTYPE=zh_HK.UTF-8
> > 3. LANGUAGE=en_US
> > 4. GTK_IM_MODULE= (Not Set)
> > 
> > Would you give me any hints? If taking a "reasonable" defaults is the
> > correct behaviours, then, how can I set the default IMModule as
> > nothing?
>
> Between GTK+-2.2.2 and GTK+-2.2.4 GTK+ was changed to select the input
> module based on LC_CTYPE rather than LC_MESSAGES.
>
> So, apparently the 'scim' module claims it should be the default module
> for 'zh'.
>
> If you don't think this is right, you can either:
>
>  - Change the module not to claim 'zh'
>  - Set GTK_IM_MODULE to the value you want ... apparently 
>    gtk-im-context-simple
>
> Regards,
> 						Owen