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Re: Loosing mouse and keyboard events??
- To: "Height, Jason" <JHeight at subcorp dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: Loosing mouse and keyboard events??
- From: Torsten Kalix <tkalix at bredex dot de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:02:16 +0200
- CC: "'Xfree Mailing List'" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: BREDEX GmbH
- References: <F1DCD9B55F1DD311AB8C00508B0AB45E010A425E@snowball.asc.com.au>
Yes, I have experienced the same problem on Win2K ... but I do not have
any other solution than you're suggesting
Torsten
"Height, Jason" wrote:
>
> Hello all
>
> I have been using cygwin xfree for a while and have struck an unusual issue.
>
> I use xwin for a xdmcp connection to our linux server, after a period of
> time of inactivity (say after coming in on a morning having left it running
> all night) I find that the keyboard no longer functions in any of the
> xterm's that have been opened.
>
> This morning I found for the first time that the mouse clicking the xterm
> close icon, would not work (although I could drag the xterm arround).
>
> Has anyone else had similar problems?
>
> I am running the latest xfree-4.0.3 downloaded yesterday. It is running on
> Windows NT4.
>
> I suspect that the problem may be related either to the windows screensaver,
> the xwindows screensaver, or the fact that I minimise the xwin window on the
> windows machine.
>
> For the moment I have to restart xwin which is OK but a bit of an
> inconvenience.
>
> Jason