chuck@morgan.com (Chuck Ocheret) (03/10/89)
I am running SunOS 4.0.1 on a 4/110 on a network and have repeatedly experienced an unpleasant problem with my selection service. Normally, when the left mouse button is clicked on text the underlying text is highlighted with reverse video. All the cut and paste operations work on the highlighted region. The symptom of my problem is that the selected text appears underlined and no cut, paste, etc... operations work. The only way to get back to a normal state has been to exit sunview and kill the selection service. Please advise. Chuck Ocheret Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10020 (212)703-4474 chuck@morgan.com
gfr@cobra.mitre.org (Glenn Roberts) (03/23/89)
> I ... have repeatedly experienced an unpleasant problem ... > Normally, when the left mouse button is clicked on text the > underlying text is highlighted with reverse video... > My problem is that the selected text appears underlined and no > cut, paste, etc. operations work. You've gotten SunView into "secondary" mode. SunView's notion of "secondary" selections is nice when you want to cut one piece of text and have it automatically place another piece of text elsewhere on the screen (hence you need to be able to "select" two things at once!). Read your SunView manual for more details on how to make use of this. If you get stuck in this mode you can always get things back to normal using the clear_functions command. Here is the description from the man page: DESCRIPTION clear_functions instructs the selection service that no function keys are currently depressed. It is useful in cases where erroneous programs have reported a key press but not the corresponding release. The usual symptom for this situation is that all selections are secondary (underscored rather than inverted), even though no function keys are down. - Glenn Roberts, The MITRE Corp., McLean VA (703) 883-6820 gfr@cobra.mitre.org
richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (03/23/89)
> The symptom of my problem is that the selected > text appears underlined and no cut, paste, etc... operations work. The SunView 1 Beginner's Guide, p106: If a text window gets stuck so it makes only secondary selections, press the STOP key to reset the window. This sounds like your problem. -- Richard
harp%terra.pkg.mcc.com@mcc.com (Christoph North-Keys) (03/23/89)
> The symptom of my problem is that the selected > text appears underlined and no cut, paste, etc... operations work. Add clear_functions to your system's SunView rootmenu. Note that the rootmenu will take advantage of the user's search path. I'm using the following setup, containing additions appropriate for using X: excerpt from ~/.rootmenu __________ ... "Keyboard" MENU $HOME/.rootmenus/keyboard ... __________ text of ~/.rootmenus/keyboard (kbd_mode is part of X11, fixkeyboard of X10) __________ "Mode Sun, encoded" kbd_mode -e "Mode Sun, unencoded" kbd_mode -u "Mode Ascii" kbd_mode -a "Mode Non-encoded" kbd_mode -n "Clear Functions" clear_functions "Fix Keyboard (X10)" fixkeyboard kbd_mode without args returns syntax and current setting. -Christopher North-Keys (harp%terra@mcc.com harp%mcc.com@uunet.uu.net) SysAdm, Pkg/Int, MCC