On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: scim > Version: 1.4.18+git20211204-0.2+b4 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hi, > > since the trixie upgrade, I find that applications using input methods > often hang until I run "killall -9 scim-panel-gtk". Normal SIGTERM is > not sufficient. > > This is happening on several machines for me, with both systemd and > sysvinit as pid 1, with ratpoison as window manager. Xterm, GTK and Qt > applications are all affected, this appears to happen randomly, even > when no IM hotkey is used. > > Machines running bookworm are fine. > > I'm using scim-anthy as backend Hi Simon, Thank you for the report. Please try the following workaround: - SCIM is too X11-specific, so use X11 instead of Wayland (e.g., log in with "GNOME on Xorg"). - scim-panel-gtk seems to cause issues in daemon mode. Try launching it without daemon mode. The simplest approach is to create a systemd service file to launch scim-panel-gtk explicitly: # begin of ~/.config/systemd/user/scim-panel-gtk.service [Unit] Description=Launch scim-panel-gtk Before=gnome-shell.service graphical-session.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=default.target # end of ~/.config/systemd/user/scim-panel-gtk.service Then use systemctl to enable and start the service. I have started refactoring SCIM to be more backend-agnostic and migrate to GTK4, but progress has been slow. I hope this workaround helps in the meantime. Thanks, Tz-Huan
