Ubuntu Breezy Badger - SCIM issue
Hi friends,
Has anyone among you upgraded to Ubuntu breezy badger? I
observed that there's some issue with SCIM on the latest Ubuntu
release. (SCIM-m17n is needed for the kannada input. Not sure how many
of you have been using that, again)
Most GNOME applications hang when you have SCIM daemon running.
More details here:
http://ubuntuforums.org
Although I haven't delved into what the exact issue might be, a quick
strace confirmed that the applications were hanging at the point where
SCIM gets initialized.
Thought of updating you folks on this so that anyone else who might've
faced the same issue might shed more light on this. If any of you are
upgrading to breezy, just take a note of this and if you find a
workaround, please inform us about it as well.

Ubuntu Breezy SCIM issue solved.
I downloaded SCIM 1.4.1-1 from this repository (UPDATE: it ain't working anymore... try this one) and compiled scim-m17n from source.
A quick reboot (ctrl + alt + backspace) and the familiar toolbar appeared back on the screen with Indic IMEs :)
btw, this is probably the first time I had to install something from source on Ubuntu :P

hmm... Check:
hmm...
Check:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/scim/+bug/3237
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/scim/+bug/2565
and
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+sources/scim/+bug/3201