[5193] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xscreensaver on SGI Indy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Fri Mar 10 10:20:30 1995
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 10:19:40 -0500
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: belville@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9503091744.AA13813@maze.MIT.EDU> (message from Greg Hudson on Thu, 09 Mar 1995 12:44:47 EST)
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
> > Xscreensaver doesn't let you choose anything with middle button
> > menu. Is this known?
I've seen this problem on several platforms, and was just able to duplicate
it trivially on this Maxine by turning on caps lock. It seems to happen when
the caps lock key is lit.
For me, this generates some confusing behavior on a Sun.
By default, I xmodmap the "Caps Lock" key to something innocuous, like "shift".
Regardless of this fact, the Caps Lock key still causes the key's Caps-Lock
indicator light to switch on and off, even though it does nothing to change
the capitalization of the characters I type. However, when the key is lit,
I observe the same xscreensaver behavior as I observed on the Decstation.
(i.e. I can pull down the menu, but cannot select any of its options.)
> I've seen this before on several platforms, but I don't know what
> causes the problem. If you pull down the menu and then, rather than
> releasing the middle mouse button, click with the left mouse button,
> you'll still be able to select menu items.
I'm unable to duplicate this behavior, and cannot find a similar 'trick' for
the case (which is my default) where xscreensaver's menu-button is set to 1.
- Eric
