[43571] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Your OLC question about "xwindows"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine Moulen)
Tue May 26 11:22:20 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:20:58 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: Christine Moulen <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
You asked for more information:
My workstation is a Sun Sparc5,
name: guru.mit.edu,
location: 14-0615,
The workstation was reinstalled April 30, or perhaps May 1. I have email
from jjmorey on April 30 saying that would be the solution to a problem I
was having then. I think it was Lou who did the installation, I forget his
last name.
Christine
At 11:09 AM 5/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>/***** hector:hotline / priam!jjmorey / 11:08 am May 26, 1998*/
> Your OLC question about "xwindows"
>
>>From pipa@MIT.EDU Tue May 26 11:01:19 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
>Subject: Your OLC question about "xwindows"
>
>
>
>Hi Christine -
>
>We'll need more info, such as what type of system you have,
>when it was reinstalled and by whom, also where is it located?
>Please respond to hotline.
>
>Thanks
>
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>Hi there. I am sorry that we were unable to answer your question before
>you logged out. You asked olc>
>>>
>>> Submitted by 'orbitee@mit.edu' on 18.51.0.203 (ENVY.MIT.EDU)
>>> Email sent via the WWW comment gateway at www.mit.edu:80.
>>>
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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
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