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From: mwette@mr-edjpl.nasa.gov (Matt Wette)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: input problem to X11 on a Sun....
Keywords: Sun3/50, uppercase characters
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Date: 28 Aug 90 22:16:29 GMT
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In article <8361@ncar.ucar.edu>, morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale) writes:
|> A new strange problem has cropped up on  *one* of the Sun3/50's 
|> that use X11 here.  The user will be typing away and suddenly, all
|> the characters appear (in xterms) in uppercase.  Additionally the 
|> mouse buttons are ignored everywhere on the root window.  Note also that
|> *only* the characters [A-Z] appear in a/any window (whichever has focus,
|> yes, we can move the pointer though button clicks are ignored...).  None 
|> of the other ASCII characters  (./><&$, etc...) appear in the windows.
|> 

I have often run into this problem (though it was more sever under X11R2).
The problem is somehow input get stuck in shifted mode.  My guess why the
mouse doesn't work is that your button presses aren't bound to the shift
key.

My solution: I hit both shift keys irradically for 10-20 hits.  This usually
seems to work.  In case it doesn't I include the following in my .cshrc file
to kill xterm and get out of X11:
	alias EXIT exit

Matt
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