I've seen something like that before, although not necessarily with xterm specifically. I think it's because I accidentally press some combination of special keys, but I don't know what.
William Yang > -----Original Message----- > From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:desktop-discuss- > bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:03 AM > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: [desktop-discuss] A continuing annoyance in xterm > > When in gui mode I mostly work from one or more xterms. > > I've found thru several versions of osol (2008.11 b101 thru 2010.10 > b118) that periodically when typing in some cmdline, the typing will > freeze at some point and further keystrokes do not enter any more > characters. > > At that point I found I can backtrack with the previou/next (up down > arrows) one step back and then come back to the current line... then > typing can continue. > > That momentary freeze has followed me on several different machines > and in vmbox running osol as guest. So is apparently something > general in nature. > > Just trying to wait out the freeze doesn't work... it appears to > require a quick backtrack with down arrow and return to current. > > Anyone else see that behavior or have an idea what might cause it? > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
