Why can't I type anything into Mozilla when I run it on aremote X server

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:10 pm, someone claiming to be James McDonald 
wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I am having a small issue with Mozilla.
>
> I have my Mandrake 8.0 linux with a lan connected to a Windows XP box
> running X-Deep32 v4.0 X server for windows.
>
> I login to my linux box via ssh and run...
>
> export DISPLAY=pcname.fqdn.org
> mozilla &
>
> Mozilla launches fine and I can click on any menu or weblink but I can't
> enter text in composer,the mail client, or the location bar.
>
> I am running a Mozilla 1.3b nightly download version of a few days ago.
>
> I have switched to kmail to write this with the same setup as above and it
> works fine.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on why mozilla wouldn't accept keyboard text
> imput while running over a remote x-server session?
>
>

I'd first try a new nightly to make sure something wasn't borken on the one 
you installed. IIRC, 1.3's been branched, so pulling from the 
nightlies/latest dir will get you something from Mozilla's Trunk. 
Check here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.3/

HTH, 
Tim

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