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From: dnelson@cyclone (Dan Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFREE Novice! (Arghhhh)
Date: 14 Jun 1995 06:53:59 GMT
Organization: X-Net, X-Files, X-com, X-men
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Paul Flores (pflores@phoenix.net) wrote:
>Ok, I give,
>
>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.

My setup:
  BSD 2.0.950412-SNAP
  Micron P90, 16m mem
  Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (using the S3 X server)
  PS/2 mouse (tried serial mouse too: same result)
  IDE boot drive (conner 540)
  SCSI tape/2nd drive
  3Com 3c509 NIC


-Dan Nelson       //                         Some people think MS-DOS is a
                \X/                          necessary evil.  They are wrong. 
dnelson@xnet.com                             MS-DOS is *not* necessary.