Netscape is a right heap of s**t on UNIX. It is riddled with bugs. Motif
too, is riddled with bugs. I wouldn't worry about it. Personally I find
that Navigator 3.04 has the right combination of bugs for me ;), certianly
less fatal than in 4.08 and 4.5.

-ad

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> Or, rather, maybe a more general X question...
> 
> How much control do individual X applications have over things like the
> keyboard? Netscape just flipped out on me, and did something odd to my
> keyboard. I wasn't able to, for instance, hit my Caps Lock key and have
> the Caps Lock LED light. Also, I wasn't able to hit control-alt-whatever
> to get to my text-based terminals. This persisted until I logged in from
> another machine and killed the Netscape process. (I had to nuke it, too.
> It didn't die after receiving a TERM signal.)
> 
> The Netscape I'm using, FWIW, is from our package source - the BSD/OS binary
> that gets installed on i386 boxes.
> 
> This probably isn't wildly important, but Netscape has done this to me before,
> and it's a bit odd.
> 
> -- 
> Mason Loring Bliss             ((  "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams
> mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us  ))  build  their nest  with fragments  dropped
> http://acheron.ne.mediaone.net ((   from day's caravan." - Rabindranath Tagore
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