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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  input problem to X11 on a Sun....
Message-ID: <9008301406.AA03393@islanders.>
Date: 30 Aug 90 14:06:56 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>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.
>

>Perhaps a broken keyboard?  Has anybody seen this before?  We're
>clueless.
>
>datum:   X11, fix-14, no local mods, SunOS 4.0.3c,  Sun3/50
>
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>Peter W. Morreale                  email:  morreale@ncar.ucar.edu
>


	Yes...Yes.... I have the same problem.  The only difference
	is that I'm saddled with a 3/60.  Its a major pain to 
	restart everything, esp. when you have editting sessions in
	several windows!   


Frank G.