scim and pinentry-gtk2

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:46:02 -0600,
Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> 
> To make a long story short, pinentry-gtk2 doesn't receive keyboard
> input when scim is being used.  This has previously been reported
> to both Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, and after scim and friends were recently
> added to Slackware, we're seeing it there.
> 
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pinentry/+bug/176815
> 
>    https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330073#c5
> 
> Any idea what's at fault?

pinentry grabs the keyboard and the screen by default (there is an
option to switch it off).  Maybe scim doesn't work well with that?

Thanks,
Marcus