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From: cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ButtonPress event problem on Toshiba
Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:27:40 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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Michael Robinson (robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:

: Under XFree86, ButtonPress events (as reflected by xev) are not generated
: when the buttom is actually pressed.  They are generated when the button
: is released (along with the ButtonRelease event), or if pointer input
: causes a motion event.

: Does anyone have any ideas/experience on what the problem might be?  It
: is rather annoying, because it appears to be responsible for breaking all
: kinds of widgets and menus, etc.

DO you have your NumLock on when you try to use X?  XFree86 3.1.1 had 
a problem with that.

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