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From: Thomas.Wintergerst@hb.materna.de (Thomas Wintergerst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFREE Novice! (Arghhhh)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 15:25:17 GMT
Organization: Dr. Materna GmbH
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>>I can't use the xarchie or xgopher clients that i sucked down from the
>>packages archive. I get the pull down menus, but as I move my curser down,
>>the menu options don't highlight!
>
>I have the same problem. I can pull down menus (like in xmh), but as Paul
>described, there's no highlight. I can't even pop up the Xterm menus!!
>
>Netscape works perfectly.  XV works perfectly.  Ghostview does NOT work. 
>xxgdb works perfectly.  It's as though simple, plain buttons/menus do not
>work.  If someone codes their own button/menus (like xv and Netscape do),
>they work.

I had this problem, too.
For me the solution was to press the num lock key so num lock is not 
highlighted. After that all menus work properly.

Although this works I consider it to be a bug in XFree86. (or somewhere else 
below it?)

Regards,
Thomas


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