Truth, Here, Now

So, I found that my KDE apps always crashed with xgl/compiz and have debugged a little. The bug may lie in SCIM/SKIM. SUSE 10.1 x86_64.

Here's my steps to reproduce crashes:

1.With working xgl/compiz

2.The SCIM/SKIM IM is NOT the default "Keyboard" nor "Eng/Euro". In my case, I
tried some Chinese IMs like pinyin. With keyboard IM on, QT apps do not crash.

3.The second new window made by the parent QT3 app will be followed by a crash.
I know it sounds tricky and strange though, it happens. Taking Kopete for
instance. Open kopete,fine. Turn on Chinese pinyin IM, click a friend in the
list and it would produce the 1st new window with success. No matter you close
this new window or not, clicking another friend. it would pop up the 2nd new
window then the window flashed to disappear. That means the Kopete crashed. In
fact, qt3 apps(Opera/kbabel/Kopete......) would crash if it was called to creat
a 2nd new window with a Chinese IM on.

I restart skim manually in shell, it does say anything wrong no matter there's
a crash or not.

Workaround:

Remeber to turn the IM to the default "Keyboard" when creating new QT windows. Better getting use to do an IM switch just before & after inputing characters that needs the other Input Method.

And if you want XGL/SCIM/QT apps work well together, "vote for the bug" at the bottom of the page:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206547

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