doug@key.COM (Douglas N. Good) (03/31/89)
Several days ago someone posted an article which described a problem that I have been having. I have yet to see a response (maybe I missed it) so I'll pose the question again. When using twm, I am not able to get a response from keyboard input Mouse input works fine and windows raise/lower/iconify/etc. as expected; however, when I type something, the raised window fails to recognize it. I have had minor success with xterm. If I select "Secure Keyboard" I can send input to the secured xterm but this certainly isn't the way it's supposed to work Could someone who's solved this problem please mail or post the solution? Many thanks, Doug ============================ Doug Good Amdahl Corporation, Key Computer Laboratories ...!pacbell!key!doug || doug@key.com -- ============================ Doug Good Amdahl Corporation, Key Computer Laboratories ...!pacbell!key!doug || doug@key.com
rcb@cccvs1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) (03/31/89)
In article <732@key.COM> doug@cygnus.key.COM (Douglas N. Good) writes: > >Several days ago someone posted an article which described a problem >that I have been having. I have yet to see a response (maybe I missed >it) so I'll pose the question again. > >When using twm, I am not able to get a response from keyboard input >Mouse input works fine and windows raise/lower/iconify/etc. as expected; >however, when I type something, the raised window fails to recognize it. >I have had minor success with xterm. If I select "Secure Keyboard" I >can send input to the secured xterm but this certainly isn't the way >it's supposed to work I had this same problem when I upgraded to V5.x. I eventually found that the problem was caused by the sample .twmrc file distributed with the code. I don't know which command was causing the problem, but I simply defined a simple .twmrc with just a main options menu with a few useful options and restarted twm and everything looked fine. Then just add the functions you want and that should work. Randy Buckland rcb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
geek@mit-amt (Chris Schmandt) (04/01/89)
>When using twm, I am not able to get a response from keyboard input >Mouse input works fine and windows raise/lower/iconify/etc. as expected; >however, when I type something, the raised window fails to recognize it. Do you define a non-existent key in your .twmrc? For example, I don't like the placement of the function keys on my 386i keyboard, and wanted to disable them. So I put in a line like: "F1" :window :f.nop This is fine. BUT, if a take a .twmrc re-defining F10 so, which works fine on a 386i, and use it on a Sun 3/60, which has no F10 key, gonzo, same symptoms you describe. This bug was dissected and a patch posted to this news group some months ago. chris
kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) (04/01/89)
I believe this problem is common to the sample .twmrc distributed in the
source. I recently noticed this same problem in the sample .twmrc given
on a Solbourne Series4/600.
Using a simple .twmrc solves the problem, though.
Bill
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employer. So there.toml@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Tom LaStrange) (04/01/89)
>>When using twm, I am not able to get a response from keyboard input >>Mouse input works fine and windows raise/lower/iconify/etc. as expected; >>however, when I type something, the raised window fails to recognize it. > >This bug was dissected and a patch posted to this news group some >months ago. Here it is again. -- Tom LaStrange Hewlett Packard Co. ARPA: toml%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com Graphics Technology Division UUCP: hplabs!hpfcla!toml Fort Collins, CO ------------------------------------------------- *** /tmp/,RCSt1a00790 Wed Nov 9 01:20:05 1988 --- menus.c Wed Nov 9 01:20:11 1988 *************** *** 137,144 **** { FuncKey *tmp; KeySym keysym; ! if ((keysym = XStringToKeysym(name)) == NoSymbol) { fprintf(stderr, "twm: unknown key name \"%s\"\n", name); return; --- 137,150 ---- { FuncKey *tmp; KeySym keysym; + KeyCode keycode; ! /* ! * Don't let a 0 keycode go through, since that means AnyKey to the ! * XGrabKey call in GrabKeys(). ! */ ! if ((keysym = XStringToKeysym(name)) == NoSymbol || ! (keycode = XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, keysym)) == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "twm: unknown key name \"%s\"\n", name); return; *************** *** 162,168 **** tmp->name = name; tmp->keysym = keysym; ! tmp->keycode = XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, keysym); tmp->cont = cont; tmp->mods = mods; tmp->func = func; --- 168,174 ---- tmp->name = name; tmp->keysym = keysym; ! tmp->keycode = keycode; tmp->cont = cont; tmp->mods = mods; tmp->func = func;