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[Rolf Leggewie <293001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

a fix was applied upstream around 2012.  If you experience something
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** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  SCIM disturbs keyboard focus

Status in SCIM:
  Unknown
Status in “eclipse” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “scim” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: scim

  Ubuntu 8.10 (but the same problems occured in 8.04LTS)
  SCIM 1.4.7-3ubuntu10

  Sometimes, when multiple applications are in use, or when applications
  produce popups, the keyboard focus is lost. One then has to force the
  keyboard focus to move to another application (say, another terminal)
  then move it back to the original application.

  While this seems to act up haphazardly, there seems to be a way to reliably reproduce the error:
  * activate SCIM for your locale (using im-switch) and restart the session (there is no need to actually run a SCIM input method; it suffices that SCIM is active)
  * start Eclipse
  * start typing away a small Java program including: System.out.println("something")

  When you start typing System., Eclipse will attempt autocompletion
  (show a list of members of the System class), then when 'out' is
  selected, it will print a list of members of the PrintStream class.

  When it does so, Eclipse has lost keyboard focus. Even if one clicks
  in the Eclipse window, Eclipse does not see keyboard action. It's
  impossible to type anymore in Eclipse unless one starts another
  application, clicks in it to force focus to go into that other
  application, then clicks back into Eclipse.

  If one disables SCIM, Eclipse does what it's supposed to do: if the
  user continues typing, then what the user types goes into the editor
  window.

  The problem is independent of the window manager (tried with Metacity,
  Sawfish, and KDE's window manager). The problem occurs with other
  applications than Eclipse, including gnome-terminal, but with Eclipse
  the problem can be reproduced reliably.

  Other people seem to have the same problem, see
  http://hrstc.org/node/21

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