According to upstream dev Tz-Huan, this should be fixed in the very recent 1.4.17. I'll publish that version for trusty in my PPA shortly. That package should be usable in any later release of Ubuntu as well.
Upstream commit fcc14b77630e9a is apparently the one fixing this isue. It's a pretty big patch so I'm not sure it will be acceptable (or even work) in xenial LTS. https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/ubuntu/stable ** Also affects: gedit (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: scim (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Committed ** No longer affects: gedit (Ubuntu Xenial) ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315579 Title: When using scim-m17n in gedit, the backspace and delete keys are dysfunctional To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1315579/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
