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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!nrchh52.rich.nt.com!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!mkiser From: mkiser@bnr.ca (Matthew Kiser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11R6: Can't select from drop down menus Date: 29 Sep 1995 14:43:10 GMT Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <44h0lu$5ao@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> References: <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz> <44guu4$96@atlantis.utmb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: crchh78.rich.bnr.ca Originator: mkiser@crchh78 In article <44guu4$96@atlantis.utmb.edu>, bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) writes: |> In article <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz>, calvin@southern.co.nz |> (Calvin I. Varney) writes: |> >hi, |> > |> >Have just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 with X11R6 and have found I can't |> >select anything from drop down menus, the mouse will move over the |> >items but nothing can be highlighted/selected. |> > |> >Any ideas whats (not) happening here? |> I have the same problem. More symptoms: things like xedit, xterm work |> fine. aXe has the problem described above. The menus drop down, but |> nothing on them is ever selected. More symptoms. tkHTML comes up, but |> the focus never moves into the window. The frame painted by fvwm works |> exactly as it's supposed to work. I tried setting the kernel option |> XSERVER and building a new kernel, but no difference. (A grep of all |> the code in the compile directory didn't find XSERVER, so my guess is |> its a relic.) It sounds like your num-lock is on. Turning it off should fix the problem (it did for me). Actually this brings up another question - How can you set up the X sever so that the num-lock is off by default? Matt Kiser +-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Matthew S. Kiser | All opinions are my own and not the | | Bell Northern Research | opinions of my employer. However, | | Richardson, Texas | the Truth is universal. | | mkiser@bnr.ca | | +-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+