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From: root@dva.in-berlin.de (Boris Staeblow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFREE Novice! (Arghhhh)
Date: 14 Jun 1995 18:36:30 +0200
Organization: Public access UN*X system, 13407 Berlin -- Germany.
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In <3rm127$ikb@flood.xnet.com> dnelson@cyclone (Dan Nelson) writes:

>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.

Switch 'NumLock' to 'off' and all will work perfectly!
(Doesn't know why - but it works...)

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