Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Following up on this issue:

At 8:04 PM -0800 1/7/14, John Ralls wrote:
...
>For 2.4.14, try deleting 
>Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Full marks to John Ralls! It looks like the problem I observe is 
limited to Mac OS X users before 10.6 (e.g. 10.5.8) and has a 
work-around.

I confirm that on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 system, if I:

1. Delete the previous copy of GnuCash 2.6.0 (or 2.4.14)

2. Re-copy GnuCash application from the .dmg to the /Applications folder

3. Delete (or in my case rename to a safe name XX_gtk.immodules_XX) 
the gtk.immodules file, as in:
rm /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

4. Run GnuCash 2.6.0 (or 2.4.14) by double-clicking the Application icon,

then the observed behaviour becomes is the same as expected. I can 
enter text; there is no longer a system beep at each keypress.

Further discussion at bug reports:
(for 2.6.0 ) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721762
(for 2.4.14) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721765

I can't wait to explore 2.6.0's goodies!
Thanks, everyone, for your help. Especially John.
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