From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: When an xterm with a scroll bar is used, and the mouse pointer is in the scroll bar, the xterm does not accept keyboard input. This used to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start an xterm with a scroll bar using "xterm -sb" 2. Ensure that it has the input focus 2. Move the mouse pointer so that it's pointing to the scroll bar 3. Type some characters. Actual Results: The characters are not typed into the xterm (it acts as if nothing was typed). Expected Results: The characters should have been entered just as they would if the pointer was anywhere else (as always used to happen :) Additional info: Using XFree86-4.1.0-15 but the problem exists in RH7.2 with no errata RPMs applied.
In the XTerm.ad resources file, there is a line VT100*translations Change the * to a . or vice versa. Restart XFree86 and let me know if the problem goes away.
Thanks for looking into this! I assume you mean the file "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm" I've edited it to change *both* the lines starting *VT100*translations: to *VT100.translations: This has fixed the problem - many thanks! Patrick