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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: psm mouse and 2.1.5 Date: 8 Oct 1996 06:09:14 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 28 Message-ID: <53cr6a$5hj@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <53cop3$aao@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.142 In article <53cop3$aao@newshost.lanl.gov>, Charlie Sorsby <crs@lanl.gov> wrote: >While I try to keep up with the news group, I'm not always >successful so I'll appreciate a Cc: to crs@hamlet.lanl.gov. > >I vaguely remember reading that there is a problem with the ps2 >mouse under 2.1.5. Is that correct? > >What are the symptoms of that problem? Is the problem >insurmountable or is there a fix? One thing I've noticed is that, after running an X session for a certain length of time, the mouse begins behaving strangely. Certain apps (mainly your basic "core" apps, such as xfm, xbmbrowser, xftp, etc., i.e., not the "fancier", Motif-like apps) exhibit strange behavior, where one can pull down a menu, but not select anything on the menu. Also, certain text-based apps that *are* "mouse-aware" if running in an xterm (such as trn, pico, pine -- properly config'ed, of course), eventually become "mouse-dumb". Don't know the fix for this, yet. -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |