Re: Argh. Why is this happening to me?

Motif has historically been problematic on open source platforms (Linux, *BSD). Steve Baur had it completed deprecated for a long time, would just spit at bug reports with Linux+Motif. Jan> Does just "--with-xim=xlib" do the trick? There have been Jan> patches floating around to disable motif based xim completely Jan> because of its instability. XIM itself is a crock. It is full of crashes (that's how I got involved in XEmacs in the first place---it was easier to try to debug Martin's XIM code than the code in FSF 19.34 and 20.0---and it was internal to XF86, not Martin's code, as you might expect). That said, I _think_ XEmacs --with-xim=xlib is pretty stable now. I haven't had problems with it (but I normally use native Canna, not Canna+kinput2 -xim, for Japanese input; I'll switch for the next devel cycle). Anyway, I haven't seen any Japanese bitches about it, and I know a lot of Japanese are using XIM because they want to use the commercial input methods. _However_, if you have any Motif libraries at all, you may be _forced_ to build in the Motif XIM stuff. Motif's I18N model, especially the XIM stuff, varies markedly from Xlib's. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."