Bug#858512: xfstt: xset fp+ unix/:7101 -> Incorrect font server address or syntax

Package: xfstt Version: 1.9.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I installed xfstt, reboot, checked to see if new fonts were available, read the fine manual, checked the output of "xset q" and eventually issued the command "xset fp+ unix/:7101" * What w

Bug#871547: general: Can't change to any other background.

Package: cinnamon Version: 3.2.7-4 Followup-For: Bug #871547 Dear Maintainer, I confirm the bug reported in Bug#871547, "Can't change to any other background". -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#869185: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoctk/texdoctk.pl: kpsewhich cannot find the configuration file, texdoctk dies

Package: texlive-base Version: 2017.20170629-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoctk/texdoctk.pl Dear Maintainer, I started texdoctk from the command line, a dialog popped out stating Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc.defaults and the onl

Bug#844742: python-eyed3: new upstream release breaks jack (console cd ripper)

Package: python-eyed3 Version: 0.7.9-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the debian package "jack" (it is a condole cd ripper) depends on python-eyed3, so much that it executes, as a consistency check, the statement from eyeD3 import eyeD3 at a very early stage of its initialization. Of co

Bug#1055312: adduser: "addgroup user group" is mentioned in man page but does not work anymore (ex bug 664869)

user to an existing group. ... $ but when I try to add a user to a group, this is what it happens $ sudo addgroup donald ducks [sudo] password for boffi: fatal: addgroup with two arguments is an unspecified operation. $ as far as I can tell, this was the outcome of bug 664869, where the OP

Bug#1079391: fig2dev does not work with new ghostscript

in my .tex file, in particular a .pdf file to be included using an auxiliary .pdf_t file of TeX commands, but my usual command failed as shown below. 02:18 boffi@debian:~ $ fig2dev -L pdftex trab00.fig trab00.pdf Error: /configurationerror in --setpagedevice-- Additional information: [/Pag

Bug#900563: cairo-dock-switcher-plug-in: switcher doesn't respect its own configuration file

Package: cairo-dock-switcher-plug-in Version: 3.4.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have stopped cairo-dock (as in killall cairo-dock) and edited the switcher configuration file, to change the desktop names from "Main", "Desk1" etc to names of my liking $ grep 'desktop names' ~/.config/cai

Bug#911862: fontconfig: Obscure message: "Unable to revert mtime: /usr/local/share/fonts"

hare/fonts// $ ls -l /usr/local/share/fonts/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 boffi staff 0 Oct 25 17:28 asdef $ groups boffi ... staff ... $ Thanks a lot ፨ gb -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#927140: getdp compiled without support for gmsh

Package: getdp Version: 3.0.4+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I was trying to familiarize with dpget, running the tutorials available on https://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/tutorials but when I followed the instructions contained, e.g., in the MagneticForces subdirectory > To compute t

Bug#976012: python3-qtconsole: funny window size (200x512 pixels) when starting

Package: python3-qtconsole Version: 4.7.6-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? $ jupyter qtconsole * What was the outcome of this action? a window sized 200x512 pixels, with the following top menu entries shown: "File", "Edit", "View", "»" * What outcome

Bug#881805: /usr/bin/xset: [xset] "xset +fp unix/:7101" doesn't work

Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.7+7+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xset Dear Maintainer, I wish to be able to use TTF fonts with ancient X programs that understand only XLFD, so I installed the packages "xfstt" and "x11-xfs-utils". Firstly I verified that the font server was running

Bug#894357: firefox: no Debian Menu System entry

Package: firefox Version: 59.0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I clicked on the root menu of TWM and tried to find an entry to launch Firefox in "Debian/Applications/Network/Web Browsing" * What was the outcome of this action? I couldn't see a menu entry t

Bug#928987: compiz: make a compiz-boxmenu package

Source: compiz Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I'd like to see compiz-boxmenu in Debian. Thank you for compiz, ciao · g -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Arc

Bug#953810: /usr/bin/xmag: [xmag] Doesn't show the pixel RGB value any more.

Package: x11-apps Version: 7.7+8 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/xmag Dear Maintainer, sometimes I use xmag to query the RGB value of a pixel on the screen but now if I click in its window instead of a display of the RGB value I see, in the terminal window from which I launched it, the error m

Bug#945115: armagetronad does not find itself (and fails to start)

Package: armagetronad Version: 0.2.8.3.4-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried to start the program, the following message was printed - Error: Error in tString GeneratePrefix() in ../../src/tools/tDirectories.cpp:1359 : Relocation error. The

Bug#919676: /usr/bin/aosd_cat: undocumented non-standard way to specify font size

Package: aosd-cat Version: 0.2.7-1.1+b1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/aosd_cat Dear Maintainer, when I specify a font size to a program using fontconfig I usually do, e.g., xterm -fa mono-18 or xterm -fa mono:size=18 while for aosd_cat the invocation must be aosd_cat --font 'mon

Bug#917379: compiz-plugins-extra: wallpaper plugin: solid fill/gradients broken

Package: compiz-plugins-extra Version: 2:0.8.16-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, following a recent update the wallpaper plugin ceased to render solid fills and horizontal/vertical gradients. If I put in the backgrounds list an image it gets rendered irrispective of the image's position in the

Bug#915037: compiz: emerald?

Source: compiz Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the package description (`apt show compiz`) includes Suggests: compiz-mate, compiz-plugins-extra, compiz-plugins-experimental, emerald, fusion-icon but `sudo apt install emerald` replies Package emerald is not available,

Bug#915683: kazam: confirm

Package: kazam Version: 1.4.5-2 Followup-For: Bug #915683 Dear Maintainer, I have the same backtrace as reported in Bug #915683. Regards, g -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Ker

Bug#899213: compiz: sistematically places new windows below existing ones

Package: compiz-plugins Version: 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I activated the "Place Windows" plugin * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? n/a * What was the outcome of th

Bug#904082: compiz-plugins: wallpaper plugin, the gradients are drawn with a light and a dark stripe in them

Package: compiz-plugins Version: 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I use the "wallpaper" plugin and I use it to draw different vertical gradients on the different faces of the cube. My typical gradient goes from a light, low saturation color to a darker, more saturated

Bug#1009647: xfstt: xset fp+ unix/:7101 reports "Incorrect font server address or syntax"

Package: xfstt Version: 1.11-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: giacomo.bo...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, as far as I can tell, I have xfstt running $ xfsinfo -server unix/:7101 name of server: unix/:7101 version number: 2 vendor string: HD vendor release

Bug#338281: idesk: changes the desktop background

Package: idesk Version: 0.7.4-1 Severity: normal i have a ~/.ideskrc without Background.* directives, from the description in http://idesk.sourceforge.net/usage.html it looks like idesk should do nothing to my desktop background (bg), but instead it uses a color of its choice for filling i know t

Bug#334480: velvet: Segmentation fault

Package: felt Version: 3.06-9 Severity: normal velvet segfaults. i cannot see any further info, but with your directions maybe i could be more elaborate on specific Qs -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')

Bug#400735: qiv no more honors command line switch -y

Package: qiv Version: 2.0-6 Severity: normal i use qiv in a X initialization script to set the background of the display to some patterned image, using the command line switch "-y" after upgrading, i found that qiv does not honor any more the "-y" switch; moreover, it hangs for input instead of

Bug#290884: title w/o buttons breaks vtwm

Package: vtwm Version: 5.4.6b-1 Severity: normal when i tried not using any buttons on the title tab i found that vtwm draws the title tabs as high as possible, so that the windows are off-screen, and the only reasonable thing that's left to do is quitting vtwm hth, twm works like a charm with b

Bug#389864: xserver-xorg-core: /usr/bin/Xorg does not find rgb.txt

Michel Daenzer writes: > retitle 389864 xserver-xorg-core: Default RgbPath broken > kthxbye > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 14:18 +0200, Giacomo Boffi wrote: > > > > 5) /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > [...] > > > (==) RgbPath set to "${prefix}

Bug#389864: xserver-xorg-core: /usr/bin/Xorg does not find rgb.txt

Michel Dänzer writes: > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 21:13 +0200, Giacomo Boffi wrote: > > Michel Daenzer writes: > > > > > > Giacomo, adding > > > > > > RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb" > > > > > > to the xorg.con

Bug#389864: xserver-xorg-core: /usr/bin/Xorg does not find rgb.txt

Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-7 Severity: normal in my debian, the X colour db is installed by x11-common, in two places, the traditional one, /etx/X11, and the new standard, /usr/share/X11 i'm used to increment the colour db with italian names and other things and until recently (l

Bug#389864: xserver-xorg-core: Default RgbPath broken

Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.1.1-9 Followup-For: Bug #389864 to clarify the issue, i'll report to you an excerpt from /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-core/changelog.gz 2006-02-15 Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.am: * Xext/Makefile.am: [...]

Bug#684788: emacs24-lucid: segfaults on startup

Package: emacs24-lucid Version: 24.1+1-4 Followup-For: Bug #684788 Dear Maintainer, i'd like to confirm the bug report of L-ukasz please find below my backtrace my best regards, gb Script started on Sat Sep 1 08:34:32 2012 $ gdb /usr/bin/emacs2

Bug#645596: inkscape: high CPU usage on startup

Package: inkscape Version: 0.48.1-2.1+b1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, the time elapsed from command line invocation to inkscape posting its main window is over 2'30" on my 2.60GHz dual core system during this time htop shows a constant CPU usage of 100% on one of the cores here i have xserv

Bug#640274: [bugfix] xserver-xorg-core make X crash when opening X apps

Julien wrote: > We don't support the closed nvidia driver, sorry. It's not a bug in the closed nvidia driver, sorry. http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-September/025062.html Cheers, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

Bug#668339: gnuplot: cairolatex driver doesn't honor monochrome keyword

Package: gnuplot Version: 4.6.0-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the following interactive steps $ gnuplot gnuplot> set term cairolatex mono dash standalone pdf Terminal type set to 'cairolatex' Options are ' pdf standalone noheader blacktext nobackground fontscale 0.6 monochrome dashed size

Bug#844568: jack: complains about missing dependency and dies

Package: jack Version: 3.1.1+cvs20050801-29.1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, /usr/bin/jack imports * from jack_globals, jack_globals imports eyeD3 from jack_init. jack_init imports eyeD3 from eyeD3 at this point, an exception is raised because the API exposed by the python-eyed3 has change

Bug#824471: context: luatex finds an undefined control sequence in conf file

Package: context Version: 2015.05.18.20150601-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I was installing context and apt-get printed > Setting up context (2015.05.18.20150601-2) ... > Running mtxrun --generate. This may take some time... done. > Pregenerating ConTeXt MarkIV format. This may take some

Bug#805471: /usr/bin/optirun: optirun fails with "systemd-logind: failed to get session"

usz Dwornikowski > wrote: >> On 08.01.16 00:40:40, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>> On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 20:26 +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >>> > On 19.11.15 11:58:58, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>> > > On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 15:21 +0100, Giacomo Boffi wrote: >&

Bug#755492: xfig: segfaults when drawing dashed-dotted lines

Package: xfig Version: 1:3.2.5.c-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I'd like to draw dashed-dotted lines but xfig consistently crashes whenever 1. I try to draw such a line using a polyline 2. I edit a previously drawn polyline, changing the line type to dashed-dotted Moreover, all 3 type

Bug#779736: dhelp: The requested URL /doc/HTML/index.html was not found on this server

Georgios, > Tagging it moreinfo. If the error persists after enabling > the /doc alias please report; else no action is required enabling the /doc alias the error disappeared, hence no action is required, but I'd like to thank you

Bug#776579: ImportError: cannot import name basemap

Package: python-mpltoolkits.basemap Version: 1.0.7+dfsg-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I installed all the python-mpltoolkits.basemap* packages, then I tried to import the basemap module from the IPython prompt, as described in different tutorials | In [1]: from mpl_toolkits import bas

Bug#776579: [Python-modules-team] Bug#776579: ImportError: cannot import name basemap

Sandro Tosi wrote: > I suspect you have something specific on your system, like a > mpl_toolkits directory in the path you are running ipython/python or a > local installation of matplotlib A local installation of matplotlib indeed... thank you very much Sorry for the noise

Bug#738203: fontmatrix: creates deprecated ~/.fonts.conf

Package: fontmatrix Version: 0.6.0+svn20110930-1.1+b1 Followup-For: Bug #738203 Dear Maintainer, the reported behavior is still present in the current package. The behavior has been fixed upstream, please see https://github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix/issues/1 -- System Information: Debian

Bug#779736: dhelp: The requested URL /doc/HTML/index.html was not found on this server

Package: dhelp Version: 0.6.21+nmu6 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when I start dhelp from the command line $ dhelp a new tab is opened in the default browser and I'm shown the following message > Not Found > > The requested URL /doc/HTML/index.html was not found on this server. > > Apac

Bug#779734: doc-central: no docs at all!

right a welcome text. When I select a menu item in the left frame by clicking on it, in the other frame appear a formatted list of document descriptions, each one with a link, e.g., "http://boffi-onderod/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html";. If I select a link in one of these descr

Bug#805471: /usr/bin/optirun: optirun fails with "systemd-logind: failed to get session"

Package: bumblebee Version: 3.2.1-10 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/optirun Dear Maintainer, I'm unable to use optirun on my Debian system, eg: $ optirun -vvv xterm [26394.265933] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf [26394.266265] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.2.1 starting... [263

Bug#805471: /usr/bin/optirun: optirun fails with "systemd-logind: failed to get session"

Luca Boccassi wrote: > What's the output of: sudo systemctl status bumblebeed $ sudo systemctl status bumblebeed ● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-11-17

Bug#805471: /usr/bin/optirun: optirun fails with "systemd-logind: failed to get session"

Luca Boccassi wrote: > Could you please try to change to KernelDriver=nvidia and restart? so I did, but nothing changed... I forgot to mention that when I use optirun the nvidia module is loaded and the discrete card is turned on, as testified by /proc/acpi/bbswitch and also by the temperature o

Bug#762685: pyspread: fails to start because "SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined"

Package: pyspread Version: 0.3.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I started pyspread from bash, typing "pyspread " at the shell prompt in a xterm, but pyspread didn't start and the python interpreter produced the following backtrace in the terminal emulator:

Bug#762685: pyspread: fails to start because "SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined"

Dear Andreas, I executed the code you forwarded to me > From upstream: > Could you ask the OP to try out the following: > > import wx > a = wx.App() > i = wx.SYS_COLOUR_GRAYTEXT > c = wx.SystemSettings.GetColour(i) > rgb = c.GetRGB() without any error, the response from wx.version() is '3.0.0.0

Bug#817903: network-manager: doesn't recognize WPA* Enterprise private key file with .p12 extension

Michael Biebl writes: > I've forwarded your issue upstream tx a lot, > Please follow up there in case upstream has further questions OK gb

Bug#817903: network-manager: doesn't recognize WPA* Enterprise private key file with .p12 extension

Package: network-manager Version: 1.1.91-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I want to configure a wireless connection provided by my institution --- meaning that I have no degrees of freedom in what I have to do to complete the procedure. That said, the institution gives me two files, a CA cer

Bug#1079391: fig2dev does not work with new ghostscript

em on Debian Sid and on Suse Tumbleweed (i.e., the other computer that I've mentioned in my previous mail) so it's likely an upstream problem. Thank you for your time ፨ g On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:39 PM Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi Giacomo! > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2024, Giacomo Bo

Bug#426012: python-scipy: cannot install

Package: python-scipy Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I tried to install python-scipy, using apt-get, i had the following output sudo apt-get install python-scipy Reading package lists... Done Building

Bug#427623: vtwm dies on C-z

Package: vtwm Version: 5.4.7-2.1 Severity: normal Hi all, if i launch vtwm from the shell, e.g., to see any eventual error messages, and later i try to put it into background using C-z and the "bg %xx" command, vtwm dies without a word thank you regards,

Bug#427788: vtwm: managed windows (under certain conditions) don't repaint on exposure

Package: vtwm Version: 5.4.7-2.1 Severity: normal i use vtwm with no autoraise and with focus follows mouse if i do what follows: a) partially cover a, say, xterm window with another one, b) give focus to xterm, without raising it c) scroll the xterm buffer using, e.g., the mouse-wheeel d)

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

Brice Goglin writes: > Hi Giacomo, > > I guess this problem with the RGB database being replaced by a > static table still occurs wth latest xserver-xorg-core 1.3, right? > For the record, it looks like we could revert to the old behavior > by defining USE_RGB_BUILTIN to 0 during the build

Bug#428728: x11-common: placing "DebianRed" in /etc/X11/rgb.txt is inane

Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.2-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch placing "DebianRed" in /etc/X11/rgb.txt is inane, because X does not honor the data in that file, but only takes into account the builtin color-names table to be able to define new color names, you should either change the bui

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

Giacomo Boffi writes: > Brice Goglin writes: > > Hi Giacomo, > > > > I guess this problem with the RGB database being replaced by a > > static table still occurs wth latest xserver-xorg-core 1.3, right? > > For the record, it looks like we could re

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

David Nusinow writes: > I don't think that's really the method we want. Ideally, the server > will use the built-in table unless we explicitly point it to an > external file using xorg.conf. That way it just works in every > situation and no one loses. if the rgb.txt you ship WERE ALWAYS the b

Bug#423837: swisswatch does not understand the editres protocol

Package: swisswatch Version: 0.6-12 Severity: important The original README in the swisswatch distribution says "Under X11R5, you can use the resource editor to interactively change colors and shapes of the graphical elements of the clock." but if i 1. launch swisswatch 2. launch editre

Bug#501661: patch for zxpdf to look for compressed files

Package: xpdf-reader Version: 3.02-1.4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch using texdoctk, sometimes vieving a pdf document fails because the document is indexed in texdoctk database with the name /long/path/document.pdf, while on the file system there is a compressed version of the document, say /lon

Bug#508462: tex4ht: oolatex doesn't like GNU's java [with a patch]

Package: tex4ht Version: 20080701-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /

Bug#345396: xserver-xorg: Conflicts nvidia-glx ... in other words: older hardware isnt supported anymore

Randall Donald wrote: > > I use an older nvidia GeForce Graphics-Board, which > > is only supported up to driver version 7174. See > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_18897.html Until now I had no > > problems with that. But now I have to decide if I want to use the > > old driver and so cant upgr

Bug#368829: a2ps: installation does not take care of /usr/share/info/dir

Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal a2ps installation procedure, for a binary package, places an info manual in /usr/share/info, but does not places a sensible entry in the dir file the info file of a2ps is still accessible with "info a2ps", but it's not listed in the top le

Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work

Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: grave when i launch ccsm from an xterm, i read the following output -- Backend : ini Integration : true Profile : default Adding plugins Initializing core options.

Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work

Julien Cristau writes: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:13:44 +0200, giacomo boffi wrote: > > > Package: compizconfig-settings-manager > > Version: 0.8.2-1 > > Severity: grave > > > > Versions of packages compizconfig-settings-manager depends on: > >

Bug#531797: compizconfig-settings-manager: apparent library mismatch [?]

Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i launch ccsm, it breaks on me with the following error message terminate called after throwing an instance of '

Bug#531798: compiz-core: /usr/bin/compiz starts xterm with --restart option

Package: compiz-core Version: 0.8.2-6 Severity: normal if something goes wrong in its attempt to start compiz.real the compiz script has a nuber of fallback options, and in my case it goes down to the last resort of starting an xterm alas it uses the same option that would be good for a window m

Bug#531800: compiz-core: /usr/bin/compiz uses the ccp plugin, that is broken

Package: compiz-core Version: 0.8.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable at the end of its grinding, the /usr/bin/compiz script tries to execute this command -- /usr/bin/compiz.real --ignore-desktop-hints --re

Bug#524273: compizconfig-settings-manager: Settings buttons don't work any more

Package: compizconfig-settings-manager Version: 0.8.2-1 Severity: normal The bug is still present in testing -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: L

Bug#531797: request for more information

sean finney writes: > tags 531800 unreproducable > severity 531800 important > thanks > > hi giacomo, > > i can't reproduce this problem (and i'm also running 2.6.29/amd64). i'm running an AMD cpu, but debian's architecture is i386 > are you sure you don't have a compiz component instal

Bug#531797: request for more information

sean finney writes: > round two :) first of all, i have to ask if you have seen my bug report against ccsm also ccsm dumps core on me, with the same error message, and if i hand start compiz.real without invoking the configuration plugin, compiz starts ok (but it doesn't do anything valuable the

Bug#531797: request for more information

sean finney writes: > right. i suspect that the problem is not in the compiz binary but > one the libraries or plugins shipped in compiz (most likely > libcompizconfig, which is linked to by both compiz.real and ccsm) right. > > > what window manager are you using? it could be that the pr

Bug#548862: svgatextmode: doesn't support newer nvidia cards

Package: svgatextmode Version: 1.9-21 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i try to use the stm binary, i get what follows (i appended also the output of the lspci command) % sudo stm Chipset = `RIVA128', Textmode clock = 28.30 MHz, 80x25 chars, CharCell = 9x16. Refresh =

Bug#539765: screenlets: problem in sensors.py?

: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.screenlets.ClearCalendar was not provided by any .service files Screenlet has already been added to /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.boffi.running Loading instances in: /home/boffi/.config/Screenlets/ClearCalendar/default/ No instance(s) found in session-path

Bug#539765: screenlets: problem in sensors.py?

Package: screenlets Severity: normal after reinstalling the nvidia (closed source) drivers, the bug i reported disappeared sorry for the noise, gb -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable AP

Bug#544666: completion works on filesystem object instead of gnuplot's commands

Package: gnuplot Version: 4.2.5-2 Severity: important TAB completion works on filesystem object, while i expect that completion is done on gnuplot's commands and options -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Arc

Bug#477313: ControlScreenlet: "Applications" menu has all entries doubled

Package: screenlets Version: 0.1-1 Severity: normal The ControlScreenlet shows, in a popup menu, some applications to start, but the apps offered by default are not the apps that i normally use, so i looked for a way to modify the menu entries i found that the ControlScreenlet reads its menu con

Bug#477313: ControlScreenlet: "Applications" menu has all entries doubled

i can add a bit more perspective having stopped and restarted my window manager, having restarted ControlScreenlet i have seen that all "Applications" submenus were correct... wtf! i added _another_ ControlScreenlet to the desktop and, after a long thinkering, oopla a second Control appeared on m

Bug#479438: [confirm] aptitude hangs after installs

Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #479438 when aptitude is used interactively, it hangs after having downloaded and installed whatever packages are to be installed before locking, i see some info messages, the last one being "Building view" tia

Bug#486476: oolatex fails to create directory sxw-%%.dir as specified in tex4ht.cfg

Package: tex4ht Version: 20080614-1 Severity: normal when i try to generate a OO file from a latex source, % /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex myfile.tex the scripts invoked from oolatex somehow fail to create a directory named, following my example, sxw-myfile.dir the relevant code is contained in /et

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

(2008-01-26-00:38) |java.version: 1.5.0 |java.class.path: /usr/share/tex4ht/tex4ht.jar |os.name: Linux |user.home: /home/boffi |user.dir: /home/boffi/dida/sismica_acciaio/oo | url = file:/home/boffi/dida/sismica_acciaio/oo/esercizio-m6.tmp | contentType = application/octet-s

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

Eitan Gurari writes: > > Hi Giacomo, > > Can you cut the file esercizio.tex to a miniature minimal size while > still demonstrating the problem. The problem seems to be in a broken > XML code produced in early phases and then fed into xtpipes. > > -eitan i forgot to mention that using

Bug#486482: tex4ht: a java program invoked from oolatex goes in error

Kapil Hari Paranjape writes: > Hello, hello Kapil, please note that i put Eitan Gurari in Cc > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Giacomo Boffi wrote: > > as i said in a previous bugreport, i have to prepend a mkdir to have a > > correct processing > > I will need to exami

Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost

Package: openoffice.org-writer Version: 1:2.4.1-3 Severity: normal when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening the .doc using some sort of word here i have a very minimal example, i open a ne

Bug#488953: screenletsd looks for a non existing file in /etc/screenlets

Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-1 Severity: normal /usr/bin/screenletsd shell script starts with the command PREFIX=$(cat /etc/screenlets/prefix) and of course i have an error message cat: /etc/screenlets/prefix: No such file or directory best regards gb

Bug#488952: screenletsd shell script uses printf "abcd" instead of printf "abcd\n"

Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-1 Severity: normal Screenletsd shell script uses printf "abcd" instead of printf "abcd\n" allover the places, so that, e.g., we have % screenletsd --help Options: --gui Open up the Graphical Interface --cliUse the Command L

Bug#473774: idle: the lines in the path browser windows are overlapping

Package: idle Version: 2.4.4-6 Severity: normal if you select a line in the path browser window, that is longer than the line below, you can clearly see that the lower part of the selected line is covered by the line below in other words, all the descenders of the letters in a line are hidden be

Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost

Rene Engelhard writes: > tag 487948 + moreinfo > thanks > > giacomo boffi wrote: > > when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc > > format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening > > th

Bug#497696: xserver-xorg-core: optioning /usr/bin/Xorg to read /etc/X11/rgb.txt

Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.2-5 Severity: wishlist the name->color mapping mechanism built into the Xorg server is configured at compile time to look either 1) an internal table, or 2) the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt at some point following , | commit 8987b2c1efc9a4667e278e6ba411772b

Bug#362299: xbase-clients: [xrdb] (apparently) changed cpp invocation switches

Package: xbase-clients Version: 1:7.0.0-2 Severity: important --- SUMMARY: characters in a .Xdefaults file, when processed by cpp, ARE NOT SYNTACTIC TOKENS, hence the NEED for the -traditional switch --

Bug#362439: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory

Package: xutils Version: 1:7.0.0-3 Severity: important i got the above error message trying to xmkmf the makefile for an old window manager --- i tried to investigate $ apt-file search Imake.tmpl mas-utils: usr/lib/mas/config/Imake.tmpl ocaml-doc: usr/share/doc/ocaml-doc/examples/config/Imake.t

Bug#364255: /etc/menu-methods/twm is missing from latest binary

Package: twm Version: 1:1.0.1-3 Severity: important /etc/menu-methods/twm is missing from latest binary (or it is not generated during installation, i don't know) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i

Bug#359908: python-gnuplot: only python2.3 is supported

Package: python-gnuplot Version: 1.7-5 Severity: normal usually, python-xxx packages support different versions of python, depending on packeges in the like of python2.y-xxx this is not true of the python-gnuplot package, that installs its stuff under the python2.3 hierarchy afaict, python-g

Bug#584857: /usr/bin/tightvncserver: image selections are partially black

Package: tightvncserver Version: 1.3.9-6.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/tightvncserver i use tightvncserver -depth 16 -geometry 1024x768 on my office debian system and then i connect from home using a vnc client from an old ibook yesterday, using djview4, that permits to save a selection done

Bug#611339: screenlets: doesn't depend on python-gnomekeyring (just recommends)

Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-7 Severity: important if i try to start screenlets-daemon rom the cli, it fails 'cs gnomekeyring is nowhere to be found python module gnomekeyring is provided by python-gnomekeyring, that is simply in the list of recommended package please either include pytho

Bug#620360: python-tk: need for ttk

Package: python-tk Version: 2.7.1-1 Severity: normal python2.7 supports the ttk widget set from tkinter, except in debian regards, gb -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'st

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

i understand that "from wx import *" should work, but it seems that it's not going to work anytime soon with wx2.8 it works as expected. good Anyhow, I don't plan an upload to just fix these examples, so this bug will be fixed when upstream will release a new version. that's ok for me tha

Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

Package: python-matplotlib-doc Version: 0.98.3-5 Severity: normal all the examples about integration between matplotlib and wx applications are broken --- the broken files are /usr/share/doc/python-matplotlib-doc/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx?.py in particular, items ...wx{2,3,4}.py

Bug#518150: [Python-modules-team] Bug#518150: python-matplotlib-doc: matplotlib 'user_interfaces' wx examples don't work

Sandro Tosi writes: > Hello Giacomo, > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:00, giacomo boffi wrote: > > all the examples about integration between matplotlib and wx > > applications are broken > > Is it possible for you to test the package in experimental > (0.98

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