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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!mcshub!todd From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) Subject: Re: Problems with xdm (xfree861.2) Message-ID: <1993Jun25.045231.25865@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: flex1.eng.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University References: <C8yoIw.4vs@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 04:52:31 GMT Lines: 28 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 have a similar problem with xdm. After a while (usually a few minutes) xterm seems to hang (not seeing any key events?) but the mouse usually works fine still (I can still get the xterm menus and window manager root menu). Actually, come to think of it, it's not just the xterms which stop responding to keys since I can't abort the server with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE either. This problem only arises when I use xdm. -- -- Todd Pfaff \ Internet: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Dept. of Mechanical Engineering \ Voice: (416) 525-9140 x2902 McMaster University \ FAX: (416) 572-7944