I just upgraded to gnome 2.9.91 see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html But all gnome applications lost the input methods, in gnome 2.8 I can use scim to input non english characters. Not only scim but also all built-in input method gone. My locale is en_US.UTF-8. Now only the stardict can see the GTK2's input methods. /Lihong