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#! rnews 1421 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4fo7rs$8hn@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <4fip82$fq8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. -- ***********http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/~cremeans***** *Lee Cremeans * hcremean@vt.edu *CS major--Virginia Tech * cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (preferred) ***********TeamOS/2--FreeBSD--UNIX--Macintosh*****