Disabling SCIM in Hardy
Tagged as Linux
Written on 2008-03-11 17:25:24
If anyone else has been struggling/annoyed/ready-to-kill due to the SCIM program that runs by default in Ubuntu Hardy I found, thanks to this gentleman, that you can disable the application altogether by doing the following:
sudo update-alternatives --set xinput-all_ALL /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none
Restart your X server and that should be it!
EDIT: I received an anonymous comment from a British locale user that said the original solution switched him back to English. A cursory google didn't turn up anything tremendously helpful/enlightening, just this, and I'm lazy tonight so I hypothesize that /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default sets your locale to the setup default and /etc/X11/xinput.d/none disables SCIM altogether. Maybe I'm right. YMMV.
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