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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with mouse pointer under X11 running on 386BSD 0.1 PK 0.2.3
Date: 1 Jun 1993 20:31:33 +0930
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au Public Access UNIX
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Message-ID: <1ufcuu$jeb@cleese.apana.org.au>
References: <1993May30.095541.1683@knobel.GUN.de>
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andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
> When starting X with xinit, then the server starts up properly
> three windows came up, twm comes up as window manager,
> but I can't see any pointer on the screen ?
> What has hapened with my pointer device ?
If you have a switchable two/three button mouse, make sure the switch
is in the "3" position. Otherwise, the pointer jumps down to the
bottom left corner of the screen and doesn't come back until you
toggle the switch.
- mark
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