On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Zhou, Wei wrote:

Hi,

Yesterday I installed the latest 1.4 32bit linux version of chimera into my opensuse 11.1. Soon after I fetched some pdb files and started to use it, at some point, I can no longer input any text into the program, such as typing another pdb id, or typing a command line, or type a file name to save it. I can still use mouse.

Turns out this was caused by enabling SCIM, so the user could type in Chinese characters. and that turning it off fixed chimera. From the web, an alternate solution should be to leave SCIM on, but turn it off just for chimera by running the following command: env XMODIFIERS=@im=local chimera Some versions of Linux use IBus instead of SCIM by default, so it is unclear how extensive this problem is. So if you are experiencing this problem, please report it (to me), so we can have a record of which versions of Linux have this problem. Thank you, Greg