Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
>When I launch xterm &, I got the following message in one Sun box:
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>input method doesn't support my preedit type
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>I don't have a clue what is wrong. where should I look into? thanks

That looked like a strange enough message that I wondered what it could be coming from. By UTSL(*) methodology, I find that "input method" is "an X11R6 feature which deals with translation of composite characters".

Further casual reading of the source (I'm not so curious as to spend time actually studying it carefully) suggests that you might try setting the "openIm" resource to "false":

xterm -xrm 'XTerm*openIm: False'

If that helps, and you don't need the composite character support, add that resource to your .Xresources file.

Ken Pizzini

(*) It's be quite some time since I've seen this usenet acronym used, so I figured I probably need to explain: UTSL stands for "Use The Source, Luke" (which is a somewhat date joke, even if there is a new wave of interest in the Star Wars movies).