I have had this problem before... Didn't take too long to figure out that
num lock was down, so I didn't feel too stupid, however it has happened to
me again lately and the num lock was not pressed. I haven't been able to
put my finger on exactly what causes it, and when I try to intentionally
recreate the problem I can't seem to do it, but every once in a while I go
back to my terminal and discover that I can't drag windows around just
like the num lock was pressed.
The problem has occurred once when I left my terminal for a period of time
not greater than 5 minutes with a screen saver running, some applications
being xhosted from other machines, and a few local running applications.
It has occurred several times while I have screen locked and left the
machine running over the weekend, again with several xhosted applications
and just a handful of locally running programs.
In order to fix the problem I actually have to restart X, not just the
window manager.
The system is running redhat 7.3 on an intel something or other and
whatever version of fvwm2 that came with redhat. The .fvwm2rc is my own
custom made file, not based on the one that came with redhat, but put
together from scratch. Oh, and it's a dual monitor display system using
the xinerama extension on 2 monitors of the same size and resolution. I
can't think of any other pertinent information, but if anyone has any
ideas as to what might be causing it I'd very much like to hear them.
--s.r.d.
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Rick Koole wrote:
>
> hmmm.... this make me feel awfully stupid....
>
> thanks
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>
> > On 15 Aug 2002 21:19:05 +0200, Rick Koole wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm using a standard winblows comaptible keyboard, having mapped my two
> > > windows keys using xmodmap with the following config
> > >
> > > keycode 115 = Hyper_L
> > > keycode 116 = Hyper_R
> > > clear Mod4
> > > add Mod4 = 0xFFED 0xFFEE
> > >
> > > I'm using key combinations with the windows keys to do windowplacement,
> > > desktopswitching and related stuff which works fine when I've just started
> > > X. However after a random time these keybindings just stop working... I
> > > can't find any regularity in the behavior of the keybindings, whenever
> > > they stop, and I press e.g. windows + j , it prints a 'j' in my terminal
> > > instead of switching windows.
> > >
> > > Any clues on this one? fvwm (2.4.8) just doesn't seem to recognize those
> > > keybindings after a while.
> >
> > Probably your Num-Lock is pressed, see FAQ #0.1.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mikhael.
> >
>
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