Subject: Sparky shortcut keys don't work, Fedora 10
From: Tom Goddard
Date: Nov 6 11:14 AM

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Sparky does not accept keyboard shortcuts on Linux Fedora 10 when foreign language input support is enabled: Language Input Utility SCIM (Smart Common Input Method platform). Disabling SCIM fixed the problem. Details follow.

Tom


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: help with Sparky on fedora 10 (Linux 2.6.27)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:50:56 -0800
From: chang YG
To: Thomas Goddard




Hi Tom,

Just as you pointed out, It is the Language Input Utility SCIM (Smart Common Input Method platform) that is causing the problem of Sparky not responding to keyboard commands. The things I did according to your suggestions are as follows:
1) start Sparky.
When I type keys while the main Sparky window has the focus, nothing appeared at the bottom and ct does not bring up any dialogue window.
2) disable SCIM
Sparky is frozen when SCIM is disabled.
3) start Sparky again
Keyboards commands work nicely.

I attach a screenshot of disabling SCIM and then successfully running Sparky in the hope that it might be useful when other Sparky users encouter the same problem.

I greatly appreciate your help.


Thanks a lot
Yonggang Chang





2009/11/5 Thomas Goddard
Hi Yonggang,

The keyboard shortcuts only work when the focus is in one of the spectrum windows or the main Sparky window or the pointer mode window, but not when the focus is on other dialogs like the assignment dialog. It sounds like you have the focus in the right window. I dont have any idea why the shortcuts dont work at all -- Ive never heard of that. It seem likely it is specific to your Linux but Im not sure what. Do you have some internationalization enabled maybe for Chinese? Possibly the characters are being sent as unicode to handle international character sets and Sparky cant handle that. When you type keys for shortcuts the usually appear at the bottom of the main Sparky window. Does anything appear there when you type?

Tom




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: help with Sparky on fedora 10 (Linux 2.6.27)
From: chang YG
To: sparky
Date: 11/5/09 8:39 AM

Hi,
My name is Yonggang Chang. I am currently working as a postdoc at Univesity of California, Merced.
I have just installed, or more preciesly unpacked, the latest version of Sparky 3.11.3 (sparky-linux2.6.tar.gz http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/sparky/distrib-3.113/sparky-linux2.6.tar.gz ) on my fedora 10 laptop with Linux 2.6.27. It starts without any problem. However, the keyboard commands dont work. For example, ct does not bring up the contour dialog. In the pointer mode window, pressing F1, F2, ... does not respond either. I am wondering if you could give me some hint about how to solve this problem. BTW, the same version works on fedora 10 (Linux 2.6.25) (which my colleague tested on his laptop).
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot
Yonggang Chang