no automatic start of scim

[Jens Petersen]

Yuandan Zhang wrote:

> I installed scim as an input method. This tool starts automatically if I
> start a mailer or openoffice. How can I stop this auto-start? I want
> start it when I need it.

This is a little obscure, but you can disable Input Method modules
completely in gtk2 applications by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=gtk-im-context-simple.
Eg to run Openoffice.org Writer without scim use:

	GTK_IM_MODULE=gtk-im-context-simple oowriter

But why not just run scim by default on your desktop?  Then you won't need
to start it up whenever you need it and you won't feel the scim startup
time since it will already be running on your desktop.

> It seems that if the scim started, there is
> conflict with perofrmance of acroread 7.0 and realplayer.

A workaround is to run them with "GTK_IM_MODULE=xim"
since they are probably linked against an older libstdc++.

See also
http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_firefox_mozilla_acrobat_reader_7_other_gtk_2_based_apps_can_not_be_installed_started

Jens