Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-10.1 Severity: minor xdvi, startet from a terminal, gives a number of warning messages which are mostly unnecessary, such as xdvi: First page of DVI file or xdvi: Last page of DVI file or xdvi: Horizontal scrolling not possible Additionally, it beeps for every such message. To me, this is a nuisance without added benefit. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0]1.4.59 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.15.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii libc62.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-4 GCC support library ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libkpathsea4 3.0-10.1path search library for teTeX (run ii libpaper11.1.14-3Library for handling paper charact ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li ii libxaw8 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System printing extension ii libxpm4 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X pixmap library ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' 'mailcap ii perl 5.8.7-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-4 The GNU sed stream editor ii tetex-base 3.0-10 Basic library files of teTeX ii ucf 2.003 Update Configuration File: preserv ii xlibs6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends: ii dialog1.0-20051107-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii libxml-parser-perl2.34-4 Perl module for parsing XML files ii perl-tk 1:800.025-2Perl module providing the Tk graph ii psutils 1.17-21A collection of PostScript documen -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: tetex-bin Version: 3.0-10.1 Severity: minor xdvi, startet from a terminal, gives a number of warning messages which are mostly unnecessary, such as xdvi: First page of DVI file or xdvi: Last page of DVI file or xdvi: Horizontal scrolling not possible Additionally, it beeps for every such message. To me, this is a nuisance without added benefit. Hm, strange. This is not the case here. Can you please describe in detail how you invoke xdvi and what you do in it? What's the output of the following commands: which xdvi /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2005, 13:05 +0100 schrieb Frank Küster: Hm, strange. This is not the case here. Can you please describe in detail how you invoke xdvi and what you do in it? $ xdvi [Press 'r' in xdvi to reload page] xdvi: Horizontal scrolling not possible What's the output of the following commands: This time, I didn’t touch anything: $ which xdvi /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi xdvi.bin - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/xdvi.real /usr/bin/xdvi.real - priority 30 Current `best' version is /usr/bin/xdvi.real. I have also set some X resources: XDvi.expert:true XDvi.shrinkFactor: 7 Both look inconspicuous to me. But they aren’t. The messages I mentioned are shown in the main window when not in expert mode, but are needlessly printed on the console in expert mode. And it still beeps. -- |=| Michael Piefel |=| Member of the Debian project
Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
retitle 342529 xdvi unnecessarily noisy in expert mode forwared 342529 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1376354group_id=23164atid=377580 thanks Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have also set some X resources: XDvi.expert:true XDvi.shrinkFactor: 7 Both look inconspicuous to me. But they aren’t. The messages I mentioned are shown in the main window when not in expert mode, but are needlessly printed on the console in expert mode. And it still beeps. I have submitted all this to the xdvik BTS at the URL indicated above. Please try it, I hope it doesn't contain my login information in some hidden way. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
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Bug#342529: tetex-bin: xdvi unnecessarily noisy
Michael Piefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ xdvi [Press 'r' in xdvi to reload page] xdvi: Horizontal scrolling not possible Actually that's quite a good example for how such output *could* be helpful if users didn't ignore it ;-) 'R' reloads the file, 'r' scrolls the page to the right ... Some of these messages about failed navigation are only enabled in the Xaw version which has very little visual feedback by default. Current users are probably more accustomed to 'responsive' GUIs, and annoyed by these messages. I should probably disable those that can occur during normal page navigation. The messages I mentioned are shown in the main window when not in expert mode, but are needlessly printed on the console in expert mode. You can disable those messages with '-hushstdout' (see the man page for details). Hmm, there's also a '-hush' option that suppresses all warnings, but doesn't affect the statusline messages; it probably should, I'll change that. And it still beeps. Maybe there could be a 'hushbell' option to disable the beeps ... beeping still seems common in programs like eg. xpdf and acroread which both eg. beep when trying to go to the previous page at the first page of a document, so I'd say it's a reasonable default. Best, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
