On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:12:56AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> After talking to
> Goto-san today, I feel like to replace im-switch package with something
> like im-common package in which uim, kinput2, SCIM just share X
> initialization hook or even SCIM to include hook in somewhere like
> /usr/share/gnome/autostart.
I would definitely support such an idea. Although I am not sure we
should deviate from the X session hooks -- after all, there are quite
some non-GNOME/KDE users.
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:37:08AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure what you mean by "it was there anyway". I just tested
> > myself, by changing the line #64 of /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80im-switch from
> > ... && eval "$XIM_PROGRAM $XIM_ARGS &" || ...
> > to
> > ... && eval "$XIM_PROGRAM $XIM_ARGS" || ...
> > i.e., remove the trailing "&" when calling "scim -d". With this change
> > I don't have a "[scim] <defunct>" zombie process anymore. In other
> > words, this change in 80im-switch fixes bug #431294.
> >
> > Osamu, can you confirm this? If so, I think the easiest way is to make
> > im-switch configurable to not append the "&" to the IME invocation
> > command.
>
> Yes. I confirmed too.
>
> The thing is many older IME interfaces such as kinput2 requires to have
> & after the command. So removing & from im-switch breaks them.
I understand some IMEs need this "&" to put themselves into background
and we shouldn't break them. I was proposing something similar to:
In /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80im-switch, change it to something like:
if [ -n "$XIM_PROGRAM_RUN_IN_BACKGROUND" ]; then
[ -n "$XIM_PROGRAM" -a -x "$XIM_PROGRAM" ] && eval "$XIM_PROGRAM $XIM_ARGS"
|| true
else
[ -n "$XIM_PROGRAM" -a -x "$XIM_PROGRAM" ] && eval "$XIM_PROGRAM $XIM_ARGS
-d" || true
fi
This way without $XIM_PROGRAM_RUN_IN_BACKGROUND defined (which is
default), im-switch will add "&" at the end of the command line and
nothing changes for old IMEs; while scim can define
$XIM_PROGRAM_RUN_IN_BACKGROUND in its im-switch script and get rid of
the "&".
It probably can be simplified to use && and || relations, but my
script-fu is not that great.
> For the moment, I suggest to fix bug #431294 by making
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim to be
[snipped]
My understanding is that these long commands are there to avoid starting
scim twice if a scim-launcher process is already running. I think this
is a separate issue and I have some problem with the implementation.
But first let me make sure I understood your intention correctly.
Ming
2007.09.17
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