Re: annoying menu in minibuffer for selecting input charset (?)

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On Dec 20, 6:08 pm, russrew <Russ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2:15 am, "bachm...@geo.uzh.ch" <bachm...@geo.uzh.ch> wrote:
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> > On Dec 17, 9:17 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
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> > > > From: "bachm...@geo.uzh.ch" <bachm...@geo.uzh.ch>
> > > > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:54:21 -0800 (PST)
>
> > > > In the minibuffer I see the words "glish/European]" (the font-size is
> > > > bigger than in other parts and the font-weight is bold. The start of
> > > > the string "[English" lies outside the emacs windows and is not
> > > > visible). When I click into the minibuffer a small window pops up ...
>
> I think the annoying menu you are seeing is the one described 
> here:http://developers.sun.com/global/products_platforms/jds/reference/faq...
> as the "Language Input Mode Status Area Window".  It went away for me
> when I switched locale from "en_US.UTF-8" to "C".

This is it! JDS is the culprit! (btw: JDS sucks anyway, but that's
another story...)
I could get rid of the 'Input Method Status' like this (I didn't
wanted to change my locale, so I choose to remove the menu):
 'Preferences' -> 'Desktop Preferences' -> 'Input Methods': Then tab
'General', section 'Display Input Method status': I switched the value
for 'Placement' to 'Gnome Panel'.

Thanks a lot!