Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.5.b-3 Severity: normal Dear Roland,
The bug is reproducible on Debian 7.1 from the stable DVDs with the customary Gnome desktop on an Apple MacBook. As far as I remember, the bug also applied to Debian 6, but now I think I have found out that the screen setup is causal. I use the laptop's built-in 13 inch screen (1280×800) plus one 20 inch external screen (1680×1050) connected via its DVI. Using Gnome's system dialogue, I have configured both so that the external monitor displays the area “on top of” that which the built-in one displays. This reflects their physical set-up. It looks something like this, since the external monitor is bigger in terms of pixels: +----------------------+ | | | | | external | | monitor | | | | | +--+----------------+--+ | | | built-in | | monitor | | | +----------------+ Whenever I start xfig from the command line of a terminal window, I get: $ xfig xfig3.2.5b: X error trapped - error message follows: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Request code: X_CreatePixmap xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting Abgebrochen (“Abgebrochen” is German for “Terminated”.) In fact, xfig shows its main window for a split second, however with rather narrow width (the ruler shows only about 4cm), and then terminates with the message as indicated above. The problem goes away and xfig starts normally when I reconfigure the external screen to use a reduced width resolution of 1280 pixel instead of 1680 pixel. I have the impression that the gdm3 window manager suggests rather narrow default initial window widths to newly opened frames in my screen set-up. Yet XFig is the only application I have seen to crash for this reason. Other applications start with a narrow window, which I can then readjust to my needs. (The default initial window width appears to be about 200 pixel.) With kind regards, Bernhard PS: The bug might be linked to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69907 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfig depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1 ii libxi6 2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1+deb7u1 ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-18.2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages xfig recommends: ii transfig 1:3.2.5.d-3 ii xfig-libs 1:3.2.5.b-3 Versions of packages xfig suggests: ii cups-bsd [lpr] 1.5.3-5 ii cups-client 1.5.3-5 ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3 ii gimp 2.8.2-2 pn gsfonts-x11 <none> ii netpbm 2:10.0-15+b1 pn spell <none> pn xfig-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
