This happens to me on FreeBSD with XiGraphics X servers. What is really
weird is that if I shade then unshade the window it will work again. It
happens under windowmaker, blackbox and twm so I don't think it is a
blackbox.

--BY


--- Adam Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dunno if it's any help, but on my Windows box (at work! I wouldn't dream
> of running it at home!) Mozilla does what I think might be the same
> thing. Sometimes all the <input type="text"> boxes simply don't let me
> type anything in, and the address bar won't let me type stuff in.
> However, I still get the context menu (cut/copy/paste/select all). I can
> also select the text inside - I just can't replace it (except by
> cut/pasting other text inside). I've been trying for a while to
> consistently get this to happen, but no luck yet.
> 
> If that's the same problem as you're getting, I'd say it's most likely a
> bug with Mozilla and not blackbox :)
> 
> Adam Hooper
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Fri, 31 May 2002 07:46:08 -0500
> Art Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:06:14PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 31-May-2002 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> Has anyone else seen this? I'm running on linux,
> > > >> with glibc-2.2.5 and compiling with gcc-3.1.1
> > > >> (again from CVS).
> > > > 
> > > > I am not seeing this with rc2, apt is retrieving rc3 as I type
> this mail.
> > > 
> > > Ok, have rc3 now.  I type in about a dozen urls and middle clicked
> my way
> > > around several sites I frequent.  No problems.
> > > 
> > > Yes, this is Debian's mozilla which is subtly different.  if you can
> come up
> > > with a sure fire site or way to recreate this please let me know.
> > > 
> > 
> > My mozilla is the build retrieved from ftp.mozilla.org, though like
> > you I am running Debian. As for a way to recreate the problem, I
> > just have to try and type something in the entry box and the program
> > locks up. I can click the arrow looking thing that shows the drop-down
> > list of sites without problem, it's just when trying to type text
> > that things get sick.
> > 
> > Let me see if I can get the Debian mozilla along with its dependencies
> > and see how that runs here. Thanks for looking into this.
> > 
> > -- 
> > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
> >  -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759


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