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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4Sight heads south and freezes
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.192416.7995@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 26 Nov 90 19:24:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.164951@bucrf11.bu.edu>, tjh@bucrf11.bu.edu (Tim Hall) writes:
|> On our SGI's (PI's and 4D/2xx's) running 3.3.1 if I hold down the ctrl
|> key and move the cursor to a new window the window manager freezes.
|> By that I mean the only active window you can get is the window that
|> the cursor was originally in.  If you try to type in that window all

If you haven't released the control then what you are observing is the
intended behaviour.

|> the characters come out as ctrl characters.  The only way to get out is
|> the ol' ctrl-shift-#pad\-f12 to get out.  We have our ctrl and
|> caps-lock keys remapped - could this be it?

However, if you have released the control key then what you are seeing is
almost certainly some interaction between you ctrl caps-lock mapping and
the window manager focus controller.

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