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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!Materna.DE!pc15 From: Thomas.Wintergerst@hb.materna.de (Thomas Wintergerst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFREE Novice! (Arghhhh) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 15:25:17 GMT Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3rmrgc$s61@peanuts.Materna.DE> References: <3rlpm8$cnc@gryphon.phoenix.net> <3rm127$ikb@flood.xnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc15.hb.materna.de X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 >>I can't use the xarchie or xgopher clients that i sucked down from the >>packages archive. I get the pull down menus, but as I move my curser down, >>the menu options don't highlight! > >I have the same problem. I can pull down menus (like in xmh), but as Paul >described, there's no highlight. I can't even pop up the Xterm menus!! > >Netscape works perfectly. XV works perfectly. Ghostview does NOT work. >xxgdb works perfectly. It's as though simple, plain buttons/menus do not >work. If someone codes their own button/menus (like xv and Netscape do), >they work. I had this problem, too. For me the solution was to press the num lock key so num lock is not highlighted. After that all menus work properly. Although this works I consider it to be a bug in XFree86. (or somewhere else below it?) Regards, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Wintergerst | Phone: +49 421 20127-0 Dr. Materna GmbH | Fax : +49 421 20127-90 Am Fallturm 5 | EMail: Thomas.Wintergerst@hb.materna.de D-28359 Bremen | CIS : 100072,1156 -------------------------------------------------------------