On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 02:45, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > I'm not sure what causes this bug, whether it is in xterm, the x > server, icewm or elsewhere.... > > Occasionally my xterms get into a mode where mouse clicks no longer > act as expected. A left or right click, rather than raising and > focusing the window, selects all of the text in the xterm from the > beginning of the saved lines to the line where the click occured. > > Middle clicks continue to paste the selection. > > Once, choosing the Show Alternate Screen option and then unchoosing it > got the xterm back to normal, but that is not working either, just now. > > One possibly relevant issue is gettimeofday(). The box crashes > occasionaly (bad smm bios I think) and the rtc is always off by a few > hours on a reboot after such an event. (Ntpd keeps it w/in a few > centiseconds ordinarily; only the hard crashes fubar the rtc.) I have > pppd run ntpdate when it starts, so there is a significant jump > backward in time every once in a while. Might that cause the bug?
Yes, this is a known problem in the X server which has been fixed in CVS. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
