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Topic: Mozilla on Linux: Keyboard doesn't work
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SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 17, 2001 10:18 AM
   
Anybody who shares my pain?When starting Mozilla (latest daily builds
since several weeks) from Xtools
I can't use the keyboard. The mouse works fine however. Any tips?
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Stefan
Member
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posted April 17, 2001 01:04 PM
Are you using the Aqua window style?
Some X11 applications (most KDE applications) have problems with keyboard input when no window manager is running, which is the case for the Aqua style.
This is not so much a bug in Xtools but a design flaw with KDE and a little bit also conceptual problem with our Aqua style manager.
For now it helps to start a "real" window manager like twm or mwm...Stefan IP: Logged |
SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 18, 2001 09:28 PM
Yes, I'm using the Aqua "window manager".During > 10 years of UNIX/X usage, I've never encountered an application which requires that a window manager is used.
In fact, an X application is more or less
unaware of the existence of window managers. But thanks for the tip, anyhow. I'll try
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Stefan
Member
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posted April 18, 2001 10:02 PM
That was was I thought when I began debugging this issue with one KDE application. Turns out it does not accept keyboard input on Linux systems with Xfree either if you don't have a window manager running...Stefan IP: Logged |
SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 20, 2001 06:40 AM
Good gosh - you're right.I tried to start Mozilla on my Linux machine
without a window manager - and it doesn't
accept keyboard input! I've submitted a bug report in Bugzilla: < http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76854 > IP: Logged |
SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 20, 2001 06:42 AM
And for what it's worth:I'm not using KDE, but Gnome. (And Mozilla isn't a "KDE" application,
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Stefan
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posted April 20, 2001 07:06 AM
OK, my statement was not very informed. I was referring to X11 applications using the Gnome toolkit, which I associate with KDE.
I noticed similar behavior with other applications as well. Seems not to be specific to Mozilla...Stefan IP: Logged |
welner
Junior Member
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posted April 20, 2001 09:30 AM
fwit...sounds very similar to the bug that they had (and seems to still exist) when running star office..the mouse works, keyboard is dead, and remains dead in all open X apps until you restart XTools..IP: Logged |
SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 20, 2001 10:10 AM
welner,You don't have an URL describing those problems with Star Office? Might be useful for the Mozilla guys. IP: Logged |
yaro
Junior Member
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posted April 21, 2001 12:19 PM
are you guys running mozilla adn star office in xfree in osx? Is that what you are saying?IP: Logged |
SvanteKleist
Junior Member
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posted April 22, 2001 11:45 AM
Not me. Running Mozilla on linux,
with DISPLAY on Mac OS X / Xtools.
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welner
Junior Member
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posted April 23, 2001 07:55 AM
SvanteKleist,here is the url describing the problem, but there is no resolution to the problem, just the report of it.
http://www.tenon.com/products/xtools/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000043.html IP: Logged |
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