Context help can be requested from almost any \CGG{} window or subwindow by pointing with the mouse cursor on the GUI element of interest and pressing \texttt{Alt/h}. That HTML manual page will be shown via the configured web browser, which is assumed as most relevant to the GUI element currently under the mouse pointer.
-\subsection{How it works}%
+\subsection{How Context Help works}%
\label{sub:how_it_works}
The hotkey to request context help is \texttt{Alt/h}. What particular help page is shown, depends on the mouse cursor location while \texttt{Alt/h} is pressed. Usually, when the mouse is located in some window or dialog, the help page related to the functionality of this window or dialog is shown. In this case the mouse can point either on some widget, or on an empty area in the window. In \CGG{} GUI there are several rich loaded windows, \textit{Timeline} and \textit{Compositor} for example. In such a case different help pages can be requested depending on the particular GUI element under the mouse. For example, pressing \texttt{Alt/h} while pointing on the \textit{Autos curve} in a track would show help on \textit{automation keyframes} section, pointing on the \textit{Overlay} mode button in the \textit{patchbay} would show help on \textit{overlays}, pointing on the \textit{camera control} in \textit{Compositor} would show help on \textit{camera and projector}.
This usually indicates that you are out of Operating System file descriptors. You can increase the amount easily with the following command line: \texttt{ulimit -n 4096} where 4096 is a size suggestion but can be increased. You can include this command line in your \texttt{.bashrc} or \texttt{.profile} file for the user login which gets run every time you login, or modify the Operating System limit for everyone in the system file, which for Fedora is \texttt{/etc/security/limits.conf}. Alternatively, you can reduce the number of file descriptors needed by going into \texttt{Settings $\rightarrow$ Preferences, Appearance} tab and unchecking the flag \textit{use thumbnails in resource window}.
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+
+\textit{Using a non-supported locale could cause a failure in starting \CGG{} with the following error.}
+
+\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,xleftmargin=10mm]
+
+ BC_WindowBase::init_im: Could not open input method.
+ unjoined tids / owner 1
+ 00007f543dffb700 / 00007f54989d5840 12BC_Clipboard
+
+\end{lstlisting}
+
+This is caused by LC\_CTYPE setting you are using, and maybe other Locale settings too.
+For example, using the following will cause the \textit{unjoined tids} error.
+
+\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,xleftmargin=10mm]
+ LC_CTYPE="en_IL" /mnt0/build5/cinelerra-5.1/bin/cin # set LC_CTYPE and start cin
+\end{lstlisting}
+
+This is an operating system error which is resolved by using the following startup instead:
+
+\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,xleftmargin=10mm]
+
+ LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8" /mnt0/build5/cinelerra-5.1/bin/cin # set LC_CTYPE and start cin
+\end{lstlisting}
+
+You can either export the LC\_CTYPE variable before starting \CGG{} or
+add this in your bash startup file or simply run from the command line as shown above.
+
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\textit{Masking Feather is not working and produces error messages on the startup window similar to:}
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