Right-click loss

[sillysloft]

We used to run fluxbox 0.1.14 on sparc, solaris 9 with no problems. However, we have recently upgraded our hardware and Sun Ray environment to use solaris 10 and fluxbox 0.9.x, and recently 1.0rc2. Both the 0.9x series and the 1.0rc2 version we have recently installed experience issues where the background loses right-click functionality thus disabling access to a menu. Right-clicking the slit still gives a menu for the slit. It seemed initially to be connected with the closure of jGRASP (1.8.3), but it now appears to be random (i.e., our admin workstation used in the server room to administer the other Sun servers randomly loses right-click, and all that runs on that session of fluxbox is a bunch of xterms).

This bug is similar to an earlier bug submitted for a gentoo branch version but is intended to show that it is a general problem not limited to Gentoo Linux. Currently we build fluxbox with GNU gcc 3.4.3 and the Sun linker, and this combination has been proven to work with other packages that we build regularly for the systems. Fluxbox is run on Xsun since Xorg is unsupported on sparc solaris.

We would like this to be resolved as soon as possible, and if you do not have the manpower to fix the problem but can point us at the problem in your source code, we would be happy to produce a patch. However, at this point, fluxbox is broken enough that we will probably remove it from our list of window managers for the time being.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to email sunadmins at lists dot tjhsst dot edu.

Reported by: *anonymous

[sillysloft]

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It might be your numlock or scrolllock. Make sure they're off when you want to right click on the desktop.

Original comment by: mark-t

[sillysloft]

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(sunadmins at lists dot tjhsst dot edu)

Thank you for that tip, we will watch that the next time a user has an issue with the desktop right-click menu.

Original comment by: btrzcinski

[sillysloft]

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Thank you for your help, it appears that that was it. Is this a known issue or is this intentional behavior?

Original comment by: nobody

[sillysloft]

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It's something that I have to keep kicking akira about. Fluxbox has numlock hardcoded to mod2, but it's mod3 on Sun machines. Fluxbox used to calculate them at run time, but akira changed it because it caused problems with menus, I think. If you want to patch it for your systems, it's just a matter of changing one line in FbTk/KeyUtil.hh . This will definitely get worked out before 1.0 .

Original comment by: mark-t

[sillysloft]

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O.K., I've committed a patch to the svn version that should fix this. If you can, please try it out and let us know how it works.

Original comment by: mark-t

[sillysloft]

• status: open --> open-fixed

Original comment by: mark-t

[sillysloft]

• status: open-fixed --> closed-fixed

Original comment by: mark-t

[sillysloft]

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Thank you for your feedback, we will try the svn version this coming week when we deploy our next set of package updates this weekend.

Original comment by: btrzcinski