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From: steinber@sparky.cs.nyu.edu (Joseph Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X - problems
Date: 21 Jul 1995 02:25:58 GMT
Organization: New York University
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Turn off num-lock (I am serious). If you turn off num-lock it will work. 
If this is the case (and I am sure that it is), you will need to 
uncomment the Server Numlock line in the X11R6Config file and then it 
will work with num-lock on or off.
JS

Tim Baird (tim@gfmurray.com) wrote:
: I have successfully installed X11R6 on my box.  
: When I first installed it, pull-down menus could be activated by
: my mouse but I was unable to select a menu item.   After much fiddling,
: the mouse/pull-down menus magically allowed me to make selections.  I don't know 
: what I did to "fix" this.  It worked great for a couple of weeks, but now 
: this problem has returned.   Does anyone have any idea where I might look to
: debug this??

: Thanks ...

: Tim Baird
: Dominus Fecit
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