jvim+X, screen+kterm, screen+kinput, kinput and other apps

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

hi,

for some reason jvim tries to do something with X if a displayvariable is set.
i assume it's trying to open a gui window, but it fails:
$ jvim
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x140000d
  Serial number of failed request:  8
  Current serial number in output stream:  8

if i unset DISPLAY, it works,
however, neither do i want to unset DISPLAY, nor do i want jvim doing
anything with X. it should just run in the terminal.

i could not find an option in the manpage telling jvim to ignore X

also,
screen does not work nicely with kterm.
kterm has a status line, and screen wants to use it. i agree.
however, everytime after screen puts something in the statusline
it turns the line off, causing frequent irritating flicker.

i can't find an option to keep the statusline permanent with screen.
the only way is to tell it to ignore the status line and use the
last line of the terminal, which defeats the point.

and then:
(note that i have not yet read the docs on that point, i just added it
because i am already writing, ignore me if the answer is easy to find)
kinput not only uses shift-space but also ctrl-o to
switch the input method. i need ctrl-o for screen.
and i also would like to use esc to get out of kinput into normal mode
(but not the other way around) which would fit nicely with my vi
editing habits (where the esc key suffers a regular beating)

lastly i wonder if it is really necessary to compile all X apps that take
text input with support for xim or the like.
couldn't one create one application that steals the keyboardfocus 
and allows you to input multibyte text and automaticly pastes it 
into the window where the keyboardfocus was before?

and for the really odd point, xemacs running inside kterm does not
take kinputs output, it interprets it as garbage, shouldn't that just
work?

greetings, martin.
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