Strange State

[Mike Crawford]

In article <1718 at brazos.Rice.edu> dregis at pldote.intel.com (~Dave Regis) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 138, message 2 of 3
>
>On a number of occasions, I've managed to get my s386i in a strange state
>in which all windows seem to become read only.  When trying to select
>text, the highlighted text is underlined rather than inverse-ed.  I
>usually manage to enter the state when editing, and I may be hitting some
>keys unintentionally.  The only way I've found to exit the state is be
>re-booting.  

We have seen something like this on our 3/80.  The windows are not
read-only, as we can still type into them, but the highlighting works as
you describe.  This may have something to do with the "secondary
selection" under SunView, which underlines, being called when primary
selection is desired.

I worked with Sun tech support about this for some time.  They had never
seen the problem before, and I eventually suggested they just file it as a
bug, as they were unable to reproduce the problem themselves.  It has been
reported by others as well; someone said it could be fixed by pressing F9,
but it did not work for me.

You don't have to reboot, though, just kill and restart the selection_svc
daemon.  Exit sunview, and while running as root from the shell:

% ps -ax | grep selection_svc | grep -v grep
  276 co IW    0:00 selection_svc
% kill -9 276
% selection_svc &

Then start up sunview again and things should work.

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