> From owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Mon Apr 22 01:08:43 1996
> From: Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Subject: Re: X-Windows
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> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:22:03 +0200 (MET DST)
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> > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Salinardi <csalin01@kepler.poly.edu> writes:
> >
> > Chris> Lately, while in X I have been having keyboard and mouse
> > Chris> lockups. The mouse cursor moves, but none of the clicks do
> > Chris> anything. I can shut the system down from another machine, but
> > Chris> I can't get my machine to do anything. So far it's only
> > Chris> happened while running Netscape 2.01, but there was a time,
> > Chris> (somewhere between 1.3.85 - 1.3.88) where Netscape couldn't
> > Chris> have worked any better. I don't want to put all the blame on
> > Chris> the kernel, but just wanted to know if anyone else is having
> > Chris> this problem. The system doesn't give any strange messages
> > Chris> either. Anybody have an idea why this is happening?
> >
> > I've had this problem as well, and it's almost certainly a netscape
> > thing. It always seems to happen if my finger slips and I open and
> > close a menu item too quickly at the wrong time. Presumably, Netscape
> > is doing a global pointer grab and then forgetting about it. I wonder
> > if it happens on other unices?
>
> It does it on HPUX too. Netscape problem.
>
> Marcus
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