Hello Jens Petersen, > More details please: what OS and application are you using? LinuxTLE (Fedora FC3) and Firefox, OpenOfficeTLE, accessories, etc. > > What happens when you press Ctrl-Space in a gtk2-based application > like gedit, say? Depends on my locale LANG=th_TH ... Nothing happens. Same as without typing Ctrl-Space LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 ... Keyboard no longer produces any visible characters, no matter how many times I press Ctrl-Space. Kill gedit, start again. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... Same as LANG=th_TH > > What does "printenv | grep iiim" output? GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim > > -Jens Thanks for your help. -- John Francis Lee 1/9-10 Thanon Trairat Muang Chiang Rai 57000 Thailand __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html