SCIM messed up the rest of my machine

[zapyourit]

I just recently installed SCIM in order to type in chinese characters. I followed the instructions i was linked to here.

However, thats where the fun ends. After installing scim the way found above, i wound up losing all headers on every window i open (EG min/max/close buttons area in the top right that is defaulted to blue, etc), also preventing me from switching between windows and minimizing them to the task bar.

Beyond that, Avant Window Navigator now also refuses to start (could be coincidence but i doubt it).

I thought that something might have gone wrong with my window manager (i was using E-GNOME, but i have now switched back to plain GNOME in order to try and resolve this but that has failed as well), so i went to system -> preferences -> look and feel -> windows and was told that the "window manager 'unknown' is not applicable to configure" (im paraphrasing as i can not switch between windows due to the same problem i am describing).

as you may imagine, this is extremely frustrating. i cannot move from one window to another, i cannot minimize or close anything without going to File in the upper left of the windows, and i have only one virtual desktop which i can use.

I havent heard of this happening to anyone else so im not sure whats going on. im using a toshiba satellite m65 s-9802 with 1.5 gigs of ram and everything else stock. luckily, my internet and wi-fi does work (did not run into that fun little problem).

please please please please help me out. im lost as to what to do to get my windows back.

thank you in advance for your time and effort and i hope to all that is holy that i hear from you soon.

Matt

[zapyourit]

sorry, that link URL is incorrect.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...hlight=Chinese is the proper link.

thanks again.

Matt

[bmvbab]

Uve probably hit the issue with compiz I guess, try doing these:
make sure u have the following lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
        Option      "TripleBuffer" "true"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option      "Allow GLXWithCompostite"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Then, try running emerald --replace in the terminal, if that helps u could add that to the sessions so that it runs everytimeyou boot.

Also try starting fusion-icon if u have it installed.

[zapyourit]

i just added those lines to my etc/X11/xorg.conf file, reinstalled emerald, and installed fusion-icon

i logged out and logged back in and yet i have no differences from before.
i have no idea whats going on and why this is happening. i just want my desktop back.

is there any simple way to get rid of SCIM and maybe that will bring everything back to normal?

[hellork]

If you own the box:

useradd blah
passwd blah# (type in password)

Log in as user blah
See if things "work"

If so, there is something different in the configuration files inside /home/blah and your $HOME
Back up you $HOME
Find out what's different.
Change it

Optional: Just delete everything in $HOME or move it someplace safe. Log out and back in. Presto, you have to copy back all your bookmarks and hotkeys, perhaps some other customizations are "lost".

[bmvbab]

I had this issue when I was in the middle of an upgrade and I had poweroff due to loss of power. When I came back on I could not see the borders.

Try removing nvidia driver and reboot, then disable desktop effects, later you can again reinstall nvidia driver-the latest from livna repo and see if that works, you may still have to ensure the above red lines in your xorg.conf.

Can you post the kernel version and kmod-nvidia veresions here?
rpm -qi kmod-nvidia
uname -a