Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, As you might have seen from the messages on debian-devel-changes, 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 has been accepted into unstable. As XSF release manager, I have no objections to the TODO list for -6 [0], but there is one item that we consider

Bug#254997: xlibs: [xkb] broken modifiers in french keymap

2004-06-18 Thread Erwan David
Package: xlibs Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal with layout pc105/fr and options altwin:left_meta_win,compose:menu mofiifers are totally broken : Mod4 for super_l, hyper_l, and meta_l the alt key has both alt and meta symbols (contradictions), and meta_l has modifier mod1 AND mod4.

Bug#254632: xterm update results in worse thread view in mutt running inside a GNU screen

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
Reverting this patch fixes the problem for me. However it was a bugfix (which obscured other bugs). The issue is whether the line-drawing character set should be selected on startup. Normally applications do this the first time line-drawing is performed. I seem to recall (unrelated to this

Bug#255007: xlibs: setxkbmap dvorak fails on macintosh

2004-06-18 Thread David Allouche
Package: xlibs Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: important Setting the xkbmap to dvorak fails with error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ setxkbmap dvorak Error loading new keyboard description though the initial setting of the keyboard at X startup is done correctly. The relevant fragment of the

Bug#255006: X-Window-System dependancies

2004-06-18 Thread Tom Taylor
Package: x-window-system Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Running Sid. Not sure if it is a bug (but annoying anyway :-) x-window-system's dependencies include xdm and twm and other things that are not really essential to running X. -- Tom Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fotango Ltd.

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Anders Karlsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 Jun 2004 08:02, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Hi everybody, As you might have seen from the messages on debian-devel-changes, 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 has been accepted into unstable. Seen it, downloaded it and installed it. Works like

Bug#255011: xlibs: mapping for macintosh/ca

2004-06-18 Thread simon raven
Package: xlibs Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Severity: wishlist Tags: sid hi, i've copied the symbols file from one dir up (/etc/X11/xkb/symbols) to the macintosh/ dir (/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh). this works fine for my keyboard, which is one of those old ADB apple design keyboards, with a CSA

Re: Question about old XFree86 modules in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi David, it is always a good idea to redirect these requests to the mailing list since other people can answer if i am not available, plus they will be recorded and other users with the same question as your can find easily an answer. On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, David Goodenough wrote:

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? As a user, all I care about: * DFSG-free * supports my hardware * is ready whenever Debian would like to make a release, i.e. X should not be the delaying point itself. *

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Humberto Massa
IMHO, @ 18/06/2004 04:03 : wrote Fabio Massimo Di Nitto : * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? I am not sure I understand this question. I, for one, would like to see packaged both xorg and kdrive based servers. * Should we regard X.Org or FreeDesktop.Org as our

Re: Question about old XFree86 modules in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread David Goodenough
Thanks for your reply. I am not subscribed to the debian-x list, and was not quite sure which was the appropriate list, but now I know. I have embedded my answers to your questions. David On Friday 18 June 2004 12:04, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Hi David, it is always a good idea to

strange X problem

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi everyone, i am trying to install sarge onto a sun ultra 5 and i am encountering a very strange X problem: startx gives me ... Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE)

Bug#255025: xlibs: Windows keys stopped working as modifiers to some other keys

2004-06-18 Thread Bruce Stephens
Package: xlibs Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal I'm using a pc105 (int) keyboard, with default settings for the Windows and Alt keys. according to GNOME's keyboard tool. Here's what it put in my .xsession file: xkbset b r rate 500 33 perkeyrepeat

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:50AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? Split up packages similiar to how XFree in Debian is currently. * Should we regard X.Org or FreeDesktop.Org as our upstream source? From what I have read

Re: strange X problem

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Lemmen
oh, and i found something else that fits into the picture: the log file says ... (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video

Bug#255006: X-Window-System dependancies

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:53:18AM +0100, Tom Taylor wrote: Package: x-window-system Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Running Sid. Not sure if it is a bug (but annoying anyway :-) x-window-system's dependencies include xdm and twm and other things that are not really essential to running X.

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Keith Packard
Around 9 o'clock on Jun 18, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? Mostly I'd like to see reasonably small packages which are updated and maintained separately so that we don't continue to have an over-arching 'X version' and instead have

Bug#254923: Window and desktop switching trouble

2004-06-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jonathan Black [Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:52:51 +0200]: Same, here and while attempting to track down the problem, I found that it was not limited to KDE, but the same behaviour occurred in GNOME too. It appears to have be caused by the new 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 versions of the XFree86 packages that

Bug#254923: xserver-xfree86: Bug does not affect non-KDE applications, e.g. Firefox

2004-06-18 Thread Bruce Miller
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #254923 -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/xfree86/X.roster: xserver-xfree86 /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Feb 8

X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: r1552 - trunk/debian

2004-06-18 Thread X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin
Author: branden Date: 2004-06-18 13:52:24 -0500 (Fri, 18 Jun 2004) New Revision: 1552 Modified: trunk/debian/TODO Log: Add item to -6 without checking with Fabio because: A) it's easy to implement, and won't introduce an RC bug even if it breaks into a million pieces B) people are

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:50AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Our questions to the community are: * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? Working ones. With as few (upstream and debian-specific) bugs as possible. Case at hand: I have yet to see the first

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040618 21:55]: I'm deliberately not choosing sides here, even though I know you're asking for people to choose sides. IMO, however, you (the X Strike Force) are best qualified to choose which way to go from now. I therefore suggest you consider the above

Re: Repository for xfree86 4.4.0

2004-06-18 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Ruben Navarro Huedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello friends: do you know some repository for xfree86 4.4.0 (sparc). I have some problems with 4.2.0 and my elite3d Have you tried 4.3.0 from unstable? -- ilmari

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:34:09AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: I'd also like to see the fonts moved to arch any, I got side tracked attempting to switch from .pcf.gz to .ttf format, but there's no reason we can't simply compile to .pcf.gz on i386 and ship them from there -- every arch can

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:49:44PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:50AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Our questions to the community are: * What kinds of X packages would you like to see in the future? Working ones. With as few (upstream and

RandR fix for next revision

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Hi, please apply the attached patch to your tree. It fixes the following issues with the RandR extension (name of submitter in parentheses): 568. The call to xf86RandRSetMode() from f86RandRCreateScreenResources() doesn't appear to be necessary. Removing it restores the documented

Bug#254632: xterm update results in worse thread view in mutt running inside a GNU screen

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:52:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I've attached the termcap file from the NetBSD machine. I see - rather old (4 years). I compared that termcap to the most recent one, saw no applicable differences. Compiled a copy of screen with termcap and curses on a NetBSD 1.6,

Bug#254632: xterm update results in worse thread view in mutt running inside a GNU screen

2004-06-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:39:00PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:52:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: I've attached the termcap file from the NetBSD machine. I see - rather old (4 years). I compared that termcap to the most recent one, saw no applicable differences.

X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: r1553 - trunk/debian

2004-06-18 Thread X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin
Author: branden Date: 2004-06-18 21:41:35 -0500 (Fri, 18 Jun 2004) New Revision: 1553 Modified: trunk/debian/TODO Log: Add item. Modified: trunk/debian/TODO === --- trunk/debian/TODO 2004-06-18 18:52:24 UTC (rev 1552) +++

Re: Future of X packages in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 03:02, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, As you might have seen from the messages on debian-devel-changes, 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 has been accepted into unstable. Our questions to the community are: * What