Re: wierd xterm bug

Hi

Not that I did understand so much of the last part of the message, I
sometimes got a similar bug!
Don't know why it happens, but sometimes when I have been pressing CTRL,
the systems misses the event when I released it again and the result is
that the mouse continues to select text instead of raising the window.

I just press (and releases) the CTRL button once more, and it releases
its function.

- 

Don't know if its the same problem you are experiencing...

~Jørn C.


On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 02:45, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:

> I'm not sure what causes this bug, whether it is in xterm, the x
> server, icewm or elsewhere....
> 
> Occasionally my xterms get into a mode where mouse clicks no longer
> act as expected.  A left or right click, rather than raising and
> focusing the window, selects all of the text in the xterm from the
> beginning of the saved lines to the line where the click occured.
> 
> Middle clicks continue to paste the selection.
> 
> Once, choosing the Show Alternate Screen option and then unchoosing it
> got the xterm back to normal, but that is not working either, just now.
> 
> One possibly relevant issue is gettimeofday().  The box crashes
> occasionaly (bad smm bios I think) and the rtc is always off by a few
> hours on a reboot after such an event.  (Ntpd keeps it w/in a few
> centiseconds ordinarily; only the hard crashes fubar the rtc.)  I have
> pppd run ntpdate when it starts, so there is a significant jump
> backward in time every once in a while.  Might that cause the bug?
> 
> 
> Xev, while the bug is evident, gives this to clicks in its window, fwiw:
> 
> Outer window is 0x2a00001, inner window is 0x2a00002
> 
> [etc]
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x0, button 1, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x100, button 1, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x0, button 2, same_screen YES
> 
> ButtonRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x3e, subw 0x0, time 3103208761, (152,107), root:(158,134),
>     state 0x200, button 2, same_screen YES
> 
> 
> -JimC
> 
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