Hi all,

I found by mere luck the solution to that problem that I've been looking for for
a long time:
how to remove those annoying little input windows when in an UTF-8 locale.

On Solaris 10, just do:
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-im-status-style -t string none
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-im-preedit-style -t string none

And to put them back (untested):
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-im-status-style -t string nothing
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk-im-preedit-style -t string callback

I found it there:
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/jds/reference/faq\
s/input-mode-window.html

Although the second value was not given there, it was pretty obvious to find.

So far, no side effect that I had noticed before: deadkeys and Compose are
working nicely.

Laurent
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