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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd 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 Lines: 28 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 ----- Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)390-1673 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043