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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!kimba.catt.citri.edu.au!tim
From: tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow)
Subject: Problems in X
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.035445.9630@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Keywords: X
Sender: tim@kimba (Tim Liddelow)
Organization: CATT Centre at CITRI, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 03:54:45 GMT
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I have X installed fine.  The only problems I am encountering seem to
be keyboard related.  Sometimes, when I enter text in an xterm or even
under xdm, I will get uppercase characters and am unable to get back to lower
case.  Is this the default handling (like login) which senses you have
only uppercase available ?  Also, sometimes when running some x apps, like
the new tetris that was posted recently, the input is supposed to be in
the x app window, but the text appears in the xterm, even though the window
manager focus is definitely in the X application.  Also, the tty driver also
seems to get into cooked mode with control characters from time to time.  This
is very unfortunate if you happen to press 'D' ... ;-)

Also, the output of ps returns -1.0 for certain percentages - is this the
floating point emulation bug ?  (I have no co-processor).

Tim.


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  Tim Liddelow                                          for(;;) fork();
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  CITRI, Melbourne, Australia                           
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