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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc45!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X11R6: Can't select from drop down menus Date: 30 Sep 1995 14:59:35 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 44 Distribution: world Message-ID: <44jm0n$dg6@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz> <44guu4$96@atlantis.utmb.edu> <44h0lu$5ao@crchh327.rich.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc45.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Matthew Kiser (mkiser@bnr.ca) wrote: : In article <44guu4$96@atlantis.utmb.edu>, bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu : (M. L. Dodson) writes: : |> In article <44gil9$ofj@southern.co.nz>, calvin@southern.co.nz : |> (Calvin I. Varney) writes: : |> >hi, : |> > : |> >Have just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 with X11R6 and have found I can't : |> >select anything from drop down menus, the mouse will move over the : |> >items but nothing can be highlighted/selected. : |> > : |> >Any ideas whats (not) happening here? : |> I have the same problem. More symptoms: things like xedit, xterm work : |> fine. aXe has the problem described above. The menus drop down, but : |> nothing on them is ever selected. More symptoms. tkHTML comes up, but : |> the focus never moves into the window. The frame painted by fvwm works : |> exactly as it's supposed to work. I tried setting the kernel option : |> XSERVER and building a new kernel, but no difference. (A grep of all : |> the code in the compile directory didn't find XSERVER, so my guess is : |> its a relic.) : It sounds like your num-lock is on. Turning it off should fix the : problem (it did for me). : Actually this brings up another question - How can you set up the X sever : so that the num-lock is off by default? Uncomment ServerNumLock line in your XF86Config file. (this one can be in /etc or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 or some other, more exotic places.) /Alby BTW, it is in FreeBSD FAQ (/usr/share/doc/FAQ, or thereabout) : Matt Kiser : +-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ : | Matthew S. Kiser | All opinions are my own and not the | : | Bell Northern Research | opinions of my employer. However, | : | Richardson, Texas | the Truth is universal. | : | mkiser@bnr.ca | | : +-------------------------------+----------------------------------------+