Re: X-Windows

Chris Salinardi (csalin01@kepler.poly.edu)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 19:24:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Ian Donaldson wrote:

> > Lately, while in X I have been having keyboard and mouse lockups. The
> > mouse cursor moves, but none of the clicks do anything. I can shut the
> > system down from another machine, but I can't get my machine to do
> > anything. So far it's only happened while running Netscape 2.01, but
> > there was a time, (somewhere between 1.3.85 - 1.3.88) where Netscape
> > couldn't have worked any better. I don't want to put all the blame on the
> > kernel, but just wanted to know if anyone else is having this problem.
> > The system doesn't give any strange messages either. Anybody have an idea
> > why this is happening?
>
> We have been noticing this sort of problem for both Netscape 1.x and 2.x.
> We dont dont Linux machines ... we have mosty SGI Indys and Sun SparcStations.
> Netscape will grab the input focus, wont release it, wont do anything
> with the keyboard/mouse events.
>
> So, I dont think its a Linux problem.

Excellent! Now we have someone to blame!

Chris