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On Monday 23 Jun 2003 9:20 am, Steve Marvell wrote: > I'm using fairly default Gnome, other than a few focus behaviour > changes. That is, I'm using sawfish. > > Now, what's weir is that I'm getting some odd (maybe) mouse events. I > notice it in emacs and mozilla, which are the only X apps i really > use. In emacs, the cursor goes to the top left and in mozilla, I get a > "click" over some text I type and have to type it again, since that > click highlights it and I overwrite it. > > Any ideas? I've seen it happen with ALL distros in KDE and Gnome, but each time has been on the laptop - I can't remember it happening with a desktop machine. (That doesn't mean it hasn't happened.) The laptop is a particular problem associated with the trackpad. If I could be bothered to use a PS/2 mouse, the problem goes away - at least to the extent of a 'normal' desktop machine. So suspect your mouse, if it's at all unusual - trackballs or other stationary devices. My laptop also generates freak F3, 4 and q keystrokes. (Note: q not Q - no matter what the Caps Lock setting.) q is a real problem when trying to play Sokoban as the app just quits silently. q is also a problem in Vi. F3 causes horrendous problems when surfing in Galeon (Open Location box pops up and then loses focus). Other problems include suddenly relocating the KDE panel to the right edge of the desktop instead of bottom edge. Changing to Desktop 3 (presumably linked to the F3 freak keystroke) or entirely changing the order of open windows so that the email message I'm working on suddenly disappears behind an open browser window. Maddening. So don't think that just because my errors are similar that there is necessarily any link!!! -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/
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