Virtualbox “failed to create XIM input context”

By: | Post date: April 25, 2014 | Comments: No Comments

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When using Fedora installed in a virtualbox VM to remote connect to a linux host, some applications may crush when opening a menu with the error “failed to create XIM input context”. This is because VirtualBox does not handle scim well.
A simple workaround is to put in a line
export QT_IM_MODULE=gcin
in the
.bashrc
file of your remote linux host, then the menu will communicate with gcin, and you will be fine.

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