[dsl0.9.3]Xvesa & firefox : keyboard trouble

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: [dsl0.9.3]Xvesa & firefox : keyboard trouble
started by: fr-greg

Posted by fr-greg on Mar. 02 2005,10:26

[ my very awful english translation below]

when i modify my .xinitrc, to desactivate fluxbox, & use firefox instead like that
$ cat .xinitrc
/usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox
$ startx
after a while (on p166mmx ;-) ) firefox goes on, but i cannot use my keyboard, no trouble with my mouse.
for example, if i want to type 'google.fr' in the url bar : nothing occurs

Note if in the .xinitrc, i put xterm instead firefox , then startx, i can write some text in the xterm (/usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox to !!!)

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 02 2005,14:16

might be something buggy in firefox. I seem to recall hearing about similar behavior in other distros as well. I'll check this out in a little while and see if i can recreate the problem.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 02 2005,23:09

I tried it out and got the same result as you. Seems to be a bug in firefox maybe?

Also noticed that some of the firefox dialog boxes don't have a close button....no way to close them without a window manager =o(

Posted by green on Mar. 02 2005,23:52

I, also, have that problem from time to time. Most of the time, it is remedied by using alt+tab to change between windows, maybe even have to do it a few times. I know that is not a technical solution, but it works for me.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 03 2005,03:54

you can't switch between windows if you have no window manager running =o)

Posted by fr-greg on Mar. 03 2005,06:23

And much more , when CTRL-ALT, and other ALT-xxx control are disable from xmodmap :-p

Posted by fr-greg on Mar. 03 2005,06:32

Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 02 2005,18:09)

Quote

I tried it out and got the same result as you. Seems to be a bug in firefox maybe?

Arg, i use damnsmall because, it could be use less than 200Mo space on hard drive, white X (server/client) install on it, and easy to install

Is there any web browser CSS2/html 4.01/flash/mplayer capable ?
I suppose mozilla got the same trouble (it the same base)
& if that web browser can have Menu/key mice/Shift or other key control disable

(hope my english no too bad to understand)

Posted by fr-greg on Mar. 03 2005,07:55

I went to test firefox under Debian 3 testing, with firefox 1.0, and i haven't got this trouble

I've try to install firefox 1.0 on DSL, but i've a gtk error at the start of Firefox (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0)

Maybe my trouble is a firefox 0.9 bug, or Xvesa ?