Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 07:50:02 -0700 From: josh@american.com To: freebsd-bugs Subject: misc/350: 950412-SNAP: mouse buttons dont always work Message-ID: <199504191450.HAA20991@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:50:47 -0400 <199504191450.KAA02959@joshpc.american.com>
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>Number: 350 >Category: misc >Synopsis: mouse clicks ignored by remote Tk and local/remote xterm >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 19 07:50:01 1995 >Originator: Josh Littlefield >Organization: American Internet Corp >Release: 950412-SNAP >Environment: Stock i486 DX2-66 running FreeBSD 950412-SNAP. XFree86-3.1.1 Mouse Systems compatible 3 button serial mouse (also tried switching to MicroSoft mouse compatible mouse with reconfig'd X server). >Description: 2 potentially related problems. First, a remote host uses Tk to put up a window on my FreeBSD X server. The buttons highlight as the mouse moves over them, but they don't react at all to button clicks. Key events work just fine. The Tk app is exmh (although I've also tried just a simple wish script) and is running on a Sparc 10, SunOS 4.1.4. The Tk was built with MIT X11R6-fix11. This Sparc Tk app works just fine when put on a NetBSD1.0 X server, and when put on an "X-win" MS-Windows X server, so I doubt its a client problem. I tried switching to XFree86-3.1 (from the FreeBSD-2.0 release distribution). Same problem. I had the problem with 950322-SNAP as well. The graphical buttons also don't work in the pkg version of ghostview (although the page selection column does). Second problem, potentially related, is that I can't get the menus on an xterm to pop up. It doesn't matter whether the xterm is remote from the Sun or local on the FreeBSD box. The menus work fine when the Sun puts an xterm on a different X server, as well as when the FreeBSD box puts an xterm on a different X server. Also, the basic, un-control-modified buttons work just fine for selecting, extending and pasting, on an xterm displayed on the FreeBSD box. Its hard to believe I'm the only one who's seen this. Will dropping back to FreeBSD-2.0 fix this? >How-To-Repeat: Run the X server on the FreeBSD box. I use "startx". Have the FreeBSD box put an xterm up (I have `(xterm &)' in my .xinitrc. Hold down the control key and click the left mouse button. Instead of getting the "Main Options" menu, it simply acts like an un-modified left mouse button. Have a remote machine display a Tk application on the local X server. Try to click with the mouse. It doesn't work. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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