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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
