BUILD & INSTALL: qmake make copy scim-panel-dbus CONFIGURE: edit your scim's global config file, ( it's /etc/scim/global in my box(Archlinux distro). ) change this line: /DefaultPanelProgram = scim-panel-gtk into: /DefaultPanelProgram = scim-panel-dbus reboot your system (or manually kill all scim related process)