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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.
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References: <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz> <44guu4$96@atlantis.utmb.edu>
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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
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