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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: X11R6: Can't select from drop down menus
Message-ID: <1995Oct2.092445.17992@wavehh.hanse.de>
Keywords: X, X11R6
Organization: The Internet
References: <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz> <kaleb.812503659@exalt>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 09:24:45 GMT
Lines: 17

kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) writes:

>calvin@southern.co.nz (Calvin I. Varney) writes:

>>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.

>Turn off your Num_Lock, then go get XFree86 3.1.2.

While we're at it. Did anyone succeded in building XFree86-3.1.2 from
the X11R6 source, fixes-1.11 XFree86-3.1.1.tar.gz and the
Xfree86-3.1.2.diff.gz? There are way too may rejects when I try...
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