I've gleefuly merged from Gnome + Metacity to a plain X session with dwm on top. No complaints, and it has done everything I need it to, but I'm stumbling on getting a XIM/SCIM toolbar to work for an IME. I need to use CJK characters on a daily basis, so I find myself popping back into Gnome with dwm on top in order to do this. It does work in Gnome, but I have no idea what differs in that setup to enable it to launch.
Here is the relevant part of my .xinitrc where I am starting to launch SCIM: http://pastebin.com/EWLRCCbq Based on the log, the SCIM daemon is indeed successfully loading in the background: http://pastebin.com/2nrCdf5L But the keys assigned to pulling it up don't do anything. I first thought that maybe dwm was stealing input with its own modkeys, so I mapped the SCIM launching (in scim setup) to different keys, but this didn't work. I'm wondering if this has something to do with the fact that the panel is designed for use in GTK and has been configured as part of Gnome and its keybindings. Does anyone have experience running an IME like scim-anthy (which is more than a key overlay - it needs a dictionary of words for word completion from Japanese syllabary to kanji) in dwm? I didn't find any relevant help online, perhaps because XIM/SCIM is a perennial problem regardless of environment. Thanks in advance. Benito Cachinero
