A general statement such as "Custom GTK widget are very likely to have bad behavior." is obviously utter nonsense.
It seems that fcitx is leaking keystrokes to Gnumeric. That is not a Gnuemric bug. Input methods such as fcitx are required to be invisible to any application. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow, PhD, FTICA Concordia University College of Alberta
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