RE: lesstif mwm bug

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Ton van Overbeek,

Thanks.  This indicates that the mwm.exe bug has nothing to do with LessTif.
In fact, this indicates is a problem with the way that Cygwin/XFree86 treats
the NumLock key and possibly other modifier keys.

As a test I just compiled XWin.exe with a modified
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/winkeybd.c/winGetKeyMappings () function that
has these lines removed:
	case XK_Num_Lock:
	  pModMap[i] = NumLockMask;
	  break;

Pulling those lines out causes mwm.exe to have no problems, regardless of
the state of the NumLock key.  Of course, the NumLock key no longer
functions in Cygwin/XFree86, but what can you do?  :)

I'm going to go ahead and release the new LessTif packages that use
/usr/X11R6 as the prefix and I'm going to see if I can fix the way that
XWin.exe handles NumLock, etc.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Ton van Overbeek
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: Harold Hunt; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: lesstif mwm bug
>
>
> At 22:26 5/10/2002 -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> >This also means that my mwm.exe problems have nothing to do with
> shared libs
> >(since I've only been building static libs).
> >
> >One interesting thing to note is that I can get mwm to switch between
> >virtual desktops by moving the mouse pointer to the edge of the
> screen.  The
> >window redraws correctly for the new virtual desktop and I can
> navigate back
> >to the original desktop.  However, I cannot move, resize, etc. the xterm
> >window.
> >
>
> I've seen this too. Mwm and/or X gets confused about the state of NumLock.
> Just hit NumLock once and everything works.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ton van Overbeek
>