Hello! A year ago I had some problem with IDL on my Ubuntu Linux box (it was 8.04): All shortcuts (hot keys) in my widget program ceased to work. After a week of investigations I found that the reason was the new SCIM manager (Smart Common Input Method) introduced in Ubuntu by default. The problem was fixed by disabling all functions in SCIM. After my last update of Ubuntu (to 9.04) the problem came out again. But now it can't be solved with SCIM configurations. Does anyone have this problem? This happens with all IDL 6.*, 7.* Any idea?