On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 04:56:31AM -0800, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am sure that this problem has been documented many
> times before, so I apologise now....
Yes! :-)
> My question is, sometimes after I have logged in (via
> XDM) and the AnotherLevel (Lestiff) has loaded, the
> buttons on any window (like xterm, rxvt, gxedit, etc)
> stop working, that is to say, when you click on them,
> no menu appears. The only way around this, I have
> found is to log out and log in again.
>
> 1. What causes this???
> 2. How do I fix this??
>From our FAQ:
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0.1 A few minutes after fvwm is started my keyboard and mouse
bindings stop working. What can I do?
A: Probably your NumLock, CapsLock or ScrollLock key is pressed. See
Q 5.5 for more details.
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5.5 Why do NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock interfere with
ClickToFocus and/or my mouse bindings?
A: Because they are treated as modifiers. You can use the
IgnoreModifiers command to turn individual modifiers off for
bindings. With XFree86 the right command is
IgnoreModifiers L25
If you changed your modifiers manually or are using a different
X server use the 'xmodmap' command to find out which modifiers
correspond to the keys you want to switch off.
This command creates a lot of extra network traffic, depending
on your CPU, network connection, the number of Key Mouse commands
in your configuration file and the number of modifiers you want to
ignore. If you do not have a lightning fast machine or very few
bindings you should not ignore more than two modifiers. So do
not ignore scroll-lock if you have no problem with it.
A better way to solve this problem is to modify the keyboard
mapping of your X server. The commands
xmodmap -e "clear Lock"
xmodmap -e "clear Mod2"
xmodmap -e "clear Mod5"
remove the CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock from the keyboard map.
Pressing these keys has no effect then. To re-add them try this:
xmodmap -e "add Lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "add Mod2 = Num_Lock"
xmodmap -e "add Mod5 = Scroll_Lock"
Fvwm has to be restarted to use the changes made by xmodmap.
Please refer to the man page of the xmodmap command for further
details.
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(You need a 2.3.x beta for the IgnoreModifiers command).
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sat Jan 27 2001 - 09:10:45 GMT