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From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X11R6: Can't select from drop down menus
Date: 29 Sep 1995 14:13:24 GMT
Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science
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References: <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz>
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In article <44gil9$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?
>
>Thanks
>Calvin.
>
>

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.)
Bud Dodson

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