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From: "Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)" <jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Subject: Re: click drag hang on X (Fixed)
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On 18 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
> I <jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us> wrote:
> >things like bitmap not properly dragging with the mouse.  I can click,
> >drag and highlight text in an xterm window, but the options on bitmap do
> >not highlight, and the pixels are not switching colors when I click on
> Seems that there are not enough color cells for highlighting.
> ... 
> You should replace the "StaticGray" by "StaticColor", and use whatever
The above has helped part of the problem, but by chance I switched off
the NumLock key and the mouse clicks are now seen by X.  Weird!