Bug#374640: gedit: freeze when XIM is used to input Japanese

[Ming Hua]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:30:39PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> 
> I've just done some limited testing.  I'll report what I have and what I
> think, more tests will follow.
> 
> Currently my test is done in testing environment, with scim 1.4.4-5 and
> gedit 2.14.4-2.

Tested in unstable environment again.

> I can confirm the results of original reporter of 374640, i.e., strange
> behavior of shift key.  Acoording to Loïc's analysis this should be a
> gedit bug and already fixed.

Got both "funny shift key behavior" and "random freeze" with gedit
2.14.4-2.  Both problems are solved by gedit 2.14.4-3.

Thanks Loïc for tracking down and fixing this bug.

> I can also get the input freeze in gedit with scim in XIM mode.
> Although the freeze deosn't seem to be hard freeze and can be solved by
> switching focus out of gedit and back again.  However, I don't think
> this is the same bug as the one in gedit, the gedit bug merely triggered
> a deeper bug in libX11.
> 
> As pointed out by Osamu, there is a Redhat bug [1] investigating this
> "lockup-with-XIM-mode" issue, and there is also a reproducer testcase
> attached in that report.  That report also points out a workground as
> setting "/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = true" in ~/.scim/config (this should be
> the default in Debian).
> 
> I reproduced the freeze with "/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = false", so the
> freeze observed by Osamu and other Japanese people using UIM is probably
> the same thing.  I'll test with "/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = true" again
> later.

Tested with "/FrontEnd/X11/Dynamic = true" again, and still can
reproduce the freeze with old gedit (but can't reproduce with new
gedit).  So I was wrong, this freeze issue is irrelevant to the Redhat
bug.

> 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201284

Ming
2006.11.27