Re: Suse 9.2 + mathematica 5.0 problem
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- Subject: [mg52777] Re: Suse 9.2 + mathematica 5.0 problem
- From: D Herring <dherring at at.uiuc.dot.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:22:23 -0500 (EST)
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Do you have the "Num Lock" key pressed? (#1 most annoying thing with Mathematica for Linux. #2 is probably the lack of scroll wheel support) Solution: add the following lines to .Xdefaults in your home directory and restart X. XMathematica*primaryModifierMask: Mod1Mask XMathematica*secondaryModifierMask: Mod3Mask If that's not the problem, then I don't have any ideas. Good luck, Daniel Eduardo Nogueira wrote: > Hi, > > (1) With Mathematica 5.0 installed in a Toshiba Satellite with Linux Suse > 9.2 I am unable to work with notebooks as anything typed comes with a cell > of standard form type and not input form. When a try to change the cell to > input form, in the menu, the cursor turns itself into a "hand-tool" (as in > acrobat reader). > > (1) Mathematica behaves normally when using math and working in the terminal > command line. > > Thanks for your attention > > Eduardo