[indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

[Sebastien Roy]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 23:59 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:27 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > I noticed that somehow I kept switching the input manager into latin
> > mode so that I was unable to type quotation marks without hitting the
> > same key twice.
> > 
> > I ended up having to disable the input manager completely because it
> > kept getting in my way.
> ...
> > Anyone else seen this or agree?
> 
> Yes, and yes.  The "latin mode" (whatever that is) is enabled with
> Ctrl-Space, and I accidentally turn this on all of the time while using
> Emacs.  Try providing some input to desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org, I
> believe the folks responsible for the input switcher thing are there.

And for a reference to past discussions regarding the evidently
controversial default hotkey of "Ctrl-Space", see the following thread
on desktop-discuss from March 2005:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=156182&#156182

Which resulted in the following being filed:

6612087 GNOME gives the impression that the compose key is stuck
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6612087

-Seb