Re: Netscape/X key/mouse binding problem

[Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@AK2614.spb.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Tim P. Gerla wrote:

> (I'm not a subscribed member of this list, so please Cc: any replies.
> Thanks!)
> 
> Recently I've been having a strange problem with Netscape and X. I'm running
> the latest potato stuff. When I start netscape, I get this:
> 
> ...
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '<' expected 
> Warning: ... found while parsing '        &lt;Btn1Motion&gt;:
> DisarmLinkIfMoved()  '
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '<' expected 
> Warning: ... found while parsing '        &lt;Btn2Motion&gt;:
> DisarmLinkIfMoved()  '
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '<' expected 
> Warning: ... found while parsing '        &lt;Btn3Motion&gt;:
> DisarmLinkIfMoved()  '
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '<' expected 
> Warning: ... found while parsing '        &lt;Motion&gt;:
> DescribeLink()  '
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Modifier or '<' expected 
> Warning: ... found while parsing '        &lt;Btn3Down&gt;:
> xfeDoPopup()    '
> ...
> 
> Several pages of that.
> 
> I'm assuming it's an X problem, since I've reinstalled Netscape several
> times, several different versions, and most of all, trying to launch
> Netscpae from a remote machine also gives me that.
> 
> Netscape will start and load pages, but they mouse buttons don't work. I
> can't click on links.
> 
> I tried rgrepping /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and /usr/lib/netscape for keywords like
> "Btn3Down" and so on, but nothing relevent showed up.
> 
> It looks like an uri escape problem, but I don't have a clue where to fix
> this or how.
> 
> If anyone has any idea what's going on, please email me! I'm not subscribed
> to debian-user, actually.

This seems to be a Nestscape problem anyway. Netscape has it's own
language to translate mouse/keyboard bindings to actions (if somebody
know references about please write!). Some of this translations are
compiled in, some stored in app-defaults/Netscape, ~/Netscape and
~/.Xdefaults. Generic line in these files related to you problem looks
like:
        <Btn2Motion>:                   DisarmLinkIfMoved()  \n\
(compare with yours)

_____                                              Aug 13, 10:45
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia        
mailto:sacha@ak2614.spb.edu