John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/06/11 1:43 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Anybody familiar with it, or what it's needed for? I've got at least one >> user (it's *very* noticeable with her) whose system is spamming >> /var/log/messages, to the effect of "Another agent is running...\nFailed >> to allocate the agent. Exitting" (complete with misspelled exiting). >> >> In googling, I've seen someone just removing the package. What, if >> anything, would that break? >> >> Oh, right, CentOS 5.6, KDE 3.5.4-1 <snip> > from browsing that URL, it appears IM in this context means Input > Method, and SCIM is some kind of generic Smart Common Input Method > editor, for which SCIM-Bridge is a Gtk(Gnome) shim of some sorts. > > looks like its mostly for far eastern languages. Yeah, from the last stuff I've found, looks like it's for her to read Chinese. I've seen some suggestions, and if they don't work (xim?), I'll talk to her about what we can do. Thanks! mark