{"id":466,"date":"2014-04-25T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitc.bme.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=466"},"modified":"2014-04-25T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T21:43:01","slug":"virtualbox-failed-to-create-xim-input-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Virtualbox &#8220;failed to create XIM input context&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;failed to create XIM input context&#8221;.  This is because VirtualBox does not handle scim well.<br \/>\nA simple workaround is to put in a line<br \/>\nexport QT_IM_MODULE=gcin<br \/>\nin the<br \/>\n.bashrc<br \/>\nfile of your remote linux host, then the menu will communicate with gcin, and you will be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;failed to create XIM input context&#8221;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips","category-mri-technical-support","post-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csic.som.emory.edu\/~lzhou\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}