On Apr 17, 15:02, Trent Piepho wrote:
> Subject: Re: FVWM: right click lock; vertical button bar?
> On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Frank Wilcox, Jr. wrote:
> > It most often happens when i'm running netscape. I'll right click to
back
> > up, or download an image or whatever, and the mouse button "stick." The
box
> > that popped up when i right clicked stays there when i let go AND it
won't
> > let me click on anything else, w/ any of the buttons. The keboard hangs,
> > too...or at lest seems to...i can hit "Stop, A" and then "boot" to reboot
the
> > terminal...but that's it.
>
> I have no idea what causes it, but I've had this happen too. I remember
that
> start office 3.1 caused it a bunch of times. I think I also had some XView
> app doing this. I don't remember netscape ever doing it to me. Star
office
> 4.0 is out and doesn't use Motif anymore, and I haven't had that problem
with
> it. Do you have this problem with another window manager? I think it may
be
> related to the application grabbing the xserver and not letting go.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Trent Piepho
The only other manager i've used for more than a few minutes is mwm, and it
worked fine (but i really like fvwm2's button bar and virtual desktop).
--
Frank Wilcox, Jr. (a.k.a. _____)
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Received on Fri Apr 17 1998 - 17:07:41 BST