** Changed in: x11-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: x11-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463663
Title:
[SRU] Enable setting property of type UTF8_STRING
Status in x11-utils package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
[Impact]
Xprop added support for UTF8_STRING back in 2009:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop/commit/?id=eb64005382abf6262c913a46e6186e019a179d59
Unfortunately `xprop -f 8u -set` has been broken until 2012:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop/commit/?id=0d069c0edae83f70ac10fab1a3c04d8197e277c4
That patch has not been backported to Ubuntu 12.04.1 (x11-utils 7.6+4), so
it's impossible to use "8u" there.
One notable use case is with LTSP, where we're using xprop as an ad-hoc
mechanism for server<=>thin clients communication, and we were recently asked
to add UTF8 support to it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/1451915
[Test Case]
This is how to reproduce the issue on Precise 12.04.1:
$ lsb_release -r
Release: 12.04
$ dpkg-query -W x11-utils
x11-utils 7.6+4ubuntu0.1
$ xprop -root -f LTSP_COMMAND 8u -set LTSP_COMMAND xterm
xprop: error: bad format character: u
This is what the correct output looks like on Trusty 14.04.2:
$ lsb_release -r
Release: 14.04
$ dpkg-query -W x11-utils
x11-utils 7.7+1
$ xprop -root -f LTSP_COMMAND 8u -set LTSP_COMMAND xterm
<no output, no error>
$ xprop -root | grep LTSP_COMMAND
LTSP_COMMAND(UTF8_STRING) = "xterm"
[Regression Potential]
Low, the patch comes from upstream and it's already included in all Ubuntu
versions after 12.04.1.
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