From owner-freebsd-tcltk@freebsd.org Mon Sep 3 08:48:05 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-tcltk@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B28CFE2C18 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:48:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0805B7B884 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:48:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id B2A8BFE2C17; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: tcltk@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F876FE2C14 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:48:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFD3F7B883 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:48:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [172.20.10.2] ([120.20.172.188]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id w838ldPY009982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:17:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.5 \(3445.9.1\)) Subject: Re: Tk entry box is broken From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <9C6EE926-2943-4FC3-B0AD-B260A5E09027@gsoft.com.au> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:17:37 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1552D934-38E5-453B-81F8-6B1187D97851@gsoft.com.au> References: <9C6EE926-2943-4FC3-B0AD-B260A5E09027@gsoft.com.au> To: tcltk@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-Spam-Score: -0.023 () BAYES_00,HELO_MISC_IP,RDNS_NONE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-tcltk@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Tcl/Tk discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:48:05 -0000 > On 3 Sep 2018, at 14:36, Daniel O'Connor = wrote: > We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for various applications and I've started = modernising our stack (from Tcl 8.4) and I am seeing a very weird issue = where Tk entry boxes only accept the character 'a'(!) but only when = using XQuartz(!!). ie on the local console it works fine, but if I SSH = in from my laptop the odd issue happens. >=20 > This works fine on our existing 9.x era stuff using Tcl/Tk 8.4. I = tried Tk 8.5, 8.6 and 8.7 with the same result. I tried this on a Linux (Ubuntu) VM and it behaves the same so I guess = it's possibly an XQuartz bug, although if anyone has some ideas I'd be = most grateful.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum