[43598] in Hotline Meeting
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christine Moulen)
Wed May 27 13:58:08 1998
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:56:47 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: Christine Moulen <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I just got a new reply from OLC. Apparently this problem occurs whenever
the numlock key is on. That seems to have fixed things. Please close
whatever log you may have for my problem.
Thanks,
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
>
> **********************
> John Morey
> Sr. Athena Customer Service Rep
> jjmorey@mit.edu
> 617-253-6367
> http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jjmorey/index.html
>http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/dcnshtml/support/support.html
> **********************
>
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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.
>>>
>>> Warning: the sender's name and address may be forged.
>>> -----
>>>
>>> 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
>/* ---------- */
>
Christine Moulen
Library Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, 14-0615
617-253-0757, fax 617-253-8894
orbitee@mit.edu
