Keyboard input missing after today's Fedora (ver .10) update

[jmvidal]

I grepped through my log and found this :

Jmvidal, what do you mean by "disconnect from the SCIM"?

That was the tooltip that popped up when I hovered over the icon on the toolbar (actually, the tooltip said "disconnect from the input method", my typo). I just clicked on that icon.

I'm very confused now because I cannot get that icon back. After the crash (xemacs) I have gone back and re-done what I did before but I cannot get that icon back. I think process is dead. I'll try logging out and back in.

Luckily, xemacs continues to work regardless of whether the input method feature is enabled or not.

[jmvidal]

Ok, logged out and back in. Now it is just like I said in post #7.

I have to have the little electric-plug icon on the toolbar. If the icon shows that I am "connected to SCIM" then xemacs does not get keyboard input, if the icon shows an unplugged plug then xemacs works.

I can click on the icon to toggle connect/disconnect.

[Dan]

Hmmmm.

Nedit fails keyboard input now, too. Has anyone filed a bug report on this yet?

[phedora]

Hello
I applied all today's patches (18 of them) and Fedora asked me to log out/log on after the completion of update.
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Has anyone else encountered same problems with todays updates and how to fix it?
Janno

After reading this thread and looking over today's patches, I suspected that the culprit might be libgxim-0.3.2-3.fc10.i386.rpm. I reverted to libgxim-0.3.1-1.fc10.i386 and now it works. I'll hop on to bugzilla now.

[sej7278]

I have problem with keyboard in SDL apps

yup me too - can't use the keyboard in urban terror or aliena arena today after the updates.

i also noticed my keyboard layout was wrong, so had to set it back to uk.

[kmarien]

And now? Should I wait for a new update (when will that be?) or can anyone tell me how to undo the latest update or some other fix?

I have keyboard problems with aMSN. Don't know yet about other apps.

[ewox]

Same keyboard problems with Opera, Open Arena, Mame, Armacycles Advanced and few other games..

[Dan]

<....>

Gotta love those fun-filled fedora updates!

Ahhhhhh! The adrenaline!

[phedora]

Hmmmm.

Nedit fails keyboard input now, too. Has anyone filed a bug report on this yet?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488307

[Dan]

Yeah. They're lumping them all into that one.

[sej7278]

do people not test these rpm's before they go out?

i wish we had a system like zfs/timemachine, where you can just roll back to a previous filesystem - maybe we ought to start making /usr into a git repository!

[phedora]

There's a new libgxim on koji:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda...m-0.3.2-4.fc10
Seems to work on my machine

[moninalexander]

have a similar problem after today's update, namely,
keyboard stops working properly after certain time in Mathematica 7 and in texmaker

[jannom]

I applied that rpm from :

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/upda...m-0.3.2-4.fc10

and rebooted, but still, in my Sql Developer I can only use character-keys BUT not ENTER or arrow-keys, so the "libgxim" didnt resolve my issue.

I hope Fedore teams finds the real culprit.

[nicholas.urfe]

Hi

If you don't plan on using scim, you could just remove libgxim (that is, if you don't have other programs installed that use it).