Squeak/X11 mouse strangeness
Dan Ingalls
DanI at wdi.disney.com
Thu Sep 3 18:28:57 UTC 1998
Kevin -
>I have a bit of a question...I often leave my Squeak VM running for extended
>periods of time running on my Xterminal (I rarely log out). I'm finding,
>however, that sometimes after being up for a while, the mouse events in Squeak
>get confused somehow. For example, if I have a browser window up, when things
>get in their confused state, if I click on a class definition the name of the
>definition gets highlighted in yellow (as opposed to grey/red) and nothing
>happens (ie the breakdown of the class does not happen in the rest of the
>browser). If I right-click on the 'root' MVC desktop in this state, the
>equivalent of the 'do' menu pops up instead of the usual menu with 'open..' in
>it. It almost seems that the mouse click is being 'modified' somehow, as
>though the alt key or a control key were stuck.
>...
>Has anyone else seen this happen?
Might be a problem with Xterminal, but it happens to me (on a Mac) whenever my toddler visits and pushes my caps lock down. This is the state you are describing.
- Dan
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