On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 11:51:59AM +1000, Paul wrote:
> I've noticed that with both 4.0.3 and 4.2.0 when I start XFree86 without a 
> mouse (using -AllowMouseOpenFail) the X server starts fine _but_ the X server 
> doesn't respond to keyboard presses. 
> The keyboard works fine on the console and I'm not using a window manager.  
> If I plug a mouse in before I start the X server everything works fine!
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before or perhaps give me somewhere to start 
> to debug this?

A stab in the dark: XFree without wm only gives keyboard focus to
windows when the mouse cursor is in it.. Try ctrl-alt-backspace or
ctrl-alt-+, ctrl-alt--, these should work even without anything being
focussed.

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