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From: dave@fps.com (Dave Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm seems to interfere with xterm
Keywords: twm, xterm
Message-ID: <1124@celit.fps.com>
Date: 3 Oct 89 01:26:37 GMT
References: <595@halley.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@fps.com
Reply-To: dave@fps.com (Dave Smith)
Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA
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In article <595@halley.UUCP> halley!tjd@cs.utexas.edu writes:
>I'm trying to run xterm when using twm.  As soon as twm gets going and
>reparents the xterm, keypresses don't make it to xterm anymore.  Button
>presses (ctl mouse 1 etc) all work fine.  Mouse movements cause the
>appropriate focus change, the title bar icons work, just no characters
>that are typed make their way to xterm.
>

This sounds as if you have function keys defined in your .twmrc (eg the Sun
L5 for expose, L7 for close) which do not exist on your X terminal.  Get rid
of the definitions for these (or change them to F keys) in the .twmrc and
try it.


David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego
ucsd!celerity!dave or dave@fps.com
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