[17611] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: mwm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Fri Mar 3 09:50:02 2000
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To: Sebastien Fusinelli <fusinell@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:57:54 EST."
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 09:49:57 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> What's wrong ?
> mwm does not answer: no popup menus especially, impossible to use shortcuts
> to move, size, iconize windows. windows stuck where they are
> no possibility of closing mwm (no popup menu) except by killing it from root
> starting mwm again does not solve the problem
>
> What should have happened:
> mwm should behave normally
>
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references
> starting another windowmanager (like fvwm95) is the only solution to get con
> trol of the windows, and then coming back to mwm does not solve the problem e
> ither (no popup menus again)
> problem disappears after logout and relogin
Did you have NumLock turned on at the time? MWM interprets NumLock as a
modifier key, and this will interfere with window operations.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
