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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!think.com!ames!sgi!rigden.wpd.sgi.com!rpw3
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Subject: Re: X11R5 for 386bsd part 1 of 3
Message-ID: <mese9nc@sgi.sgi.com>
Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1992 06:58:27 GMT
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hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
+---------------
| The port is not over much work to do, for instance sometimes xterm gets in 
| a funny state like if it lost track of the parity and echoes garbage, if you 
| play around with the window, you may get it to work right or the session
| restarts! 
+---------------

I have seen something like this even on "commercial" ports. Are you
sure it's not that the window saw a <control-key-down> and never saw
a <control-key-up>? That will make plain characters come out "controlled"
(i.e. "a" shows as "<cntl-A>".) In particular, typing "d" will log you
out! Try moving the mouse into the window and typing the control key
down and up, and then type a plain character (e.g., "a") and see if the
problem is gone.

I have seen this mostly occurring if a new xterm pops up right where
the mouse happens to be...


-Rob

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Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510		rpw3@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.		(415)390-1673
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA  94043