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Your OLC question about "xwindows"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pipa@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 26 11:01:21 1998
From: <pipa@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:01:16 -0400
To: "Christine L Moulen" <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
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Hi there. I am sorry that we were unable to answer your question before
you logged out. You asked olc>
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>> Submitted by 'orbitee@mit.edu' on 18.51.0.203 (ENVY.MIT.EDU)
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>> I'm not sure if you can help me with this or if my hardware
>> is messed up, but my mouse has been acting funny since
>> Athena software was recently reinstalled on my workstation.
>>
>> More specifically,
>> The mouse pointer will move around and the window under the
>> pointer becomes active. And I can copy and paste text
>> between windows using the mouse. Beyond that, none of the
>> mouse functions to control my windows are working. The
>> window buttons don't respond, double clicking iconified
>> windows does nothing, using the meta key plus a mouse
>> button to move a window to the top or bottom of the stack
>> does nothing, etc...
>>
>> It usually works fine for a while after I login, but then
>> starts the behavior described above. I'm not sure of this
>> connection, but it seems that the problem starts up after
>> I've opened emacs, and possibly pasted some text back and
>> forth from there.
>>
>> I'm using mwm window manager, and the workstation is a
>> Sun Sparc5.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> Christine
Because this sounds more like a hardware problem, I have cc'ed this
email to hotline@mit.edu (I assume that they are the people who
reinstalled your workstation). Hopefully they can figure out your
problem. You might also try contacting them at x3-1410 (which will page
someone to look at your problem).
I hope that this helps. Since I believe you may still have more
questions, so I am going to leave your question in olc> active. If your
problem becomes resolved, please type done at the olc> prompt to resolve
your question in the queue. You can also type send at the olc> prompt
at any time to give us an update on your question, or to ask us more
about your problem. Thanks for using olc>
Heather D Drake
Athena Consultant
