Re: wierd xterm bug

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?

Yes, this is a known problem in the X server which has been fixed in
CVS.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast