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From: rcb@cccvs1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Keyboardless twm
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Date: 31 Mar 89 13:31:24 GMT
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In article <732@key.COM> doug@cygnus.key.COM (Douglas N. Good) writes:
>
>Several days ago someone posted an article which described a problem
>that I have been having.  I have yet to see a response (maybe I missed
>it) so I'll pose the question again.
>
>When using twm, I am not able to get a response from keyboard input
>Mouse input works fine and windows raise/lower/iconify/etc. as expected;
>however, when I type something, the raised window fails to recognize it.
>I have had minor success with xterm.  If I select "Secure Keyboard" I
>can send input to the secured xterm but this certainly isn't the way
>it's supposed to work

I had this same problem when I upgraded to V5.x. I eventually found that
the problem was caused by the sample .twmrc file distributed with
the code. I don't know which command was causing the problem, but I 
simply defined a simple .twmrc with just a main options menu with a few
useful options and restarted twm and everything looked fine. Then just
add the functions you want and that should work.

Randy Buckland
rcb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu