(... end-of-year tidy ...) Ages ago I wrote: > I have Linux SL6.4 running under virtualbox 4.3.12 hosted on a Windows 7 > system (on a Dell laptop, if it makes any difference). > Originally when I set this up FvwmIconMan wasn't seeing any mouse clicks ... > Then, for a while, it started working. Then it stopped again in the middle > of a session for no obvious reason, and it hasn't worked since.
Following this up for the archive, it appears that something is randomly turning the num-lock modifier off and on, and so now when FvwmIconMan stops working I know to hit the key to see if that fixes things. And so far it always has. I've no idea what's doing it. It still happens with later versions of virtualbox, though I have to say it's been doing it less often recently. I also have caps-lock get turned off and on, though that may be due to its position on the keyboard. And keys sometimes get stuck auto-repeating, though hitting some other key causes it to stop. So all in all it works well enough now that I know what to look out for, and the advantages probably outweigh (for me) the disadvantages. Belated thanks for your suggestions at the time, which put me onto the cause. -- George D M Ross MSc PhD CEng MBCS CITP, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AB Mail: g...@inf.ed.ac.uk Voice: 0131 650 5147 Fax: 0131 650 6899 PGP: 1024D/AD758CC5 B91E D430 1E0D 5883 EF6A 426C B676 5C2B AD75 8CC5 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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