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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie From: ivie@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems with xdm (xfree861.2) Message-ID: <1993Jun21.031441.69345@cc.usu.edu> Date: 21 Jun 93 03:14:41 MDT References: <C8yoIw.4vs@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 24 In article <C8yoIw.4vs@cosy.sbg.ac.at>, peter@wiesel (Peter Burgstaller) writes: > Hi folks! > > Last friday I tried to setup my 386bsd to startup with xdm. > I checked all files in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/* and configured > them to my needs. Everything fine. > Starting up xdm was no problem too, BUT > after a while my xterms keep hanging up in a way I just can > enter CAPITALS and my mouse is in a rightbuttonpressed state. > > I couldn't find any special keycombination to envoke this > feature/bug. It just happens and *all* xterms (even new ones) > echo only capital letters. > I've only seen stuff like this if a run a DEC session manager from VMS displaying on NetBSD. Right shift becomes a shift lock. I haven't seen a mouse button stuck down, though. I can do just about everything else that I want to do from VMS except run the session manager. Well, I can't run the bookreader either; it dies right after drawing its window (I suspect that it wants a font that isn't there). Roger Ivie ivie@cc.usu.edu