I tried to do this, but gxditview was not on my system (Crostini on a Chromebook = Debian 11 (bullseye).
So I compiled again from source, making sure --with-x was added to configure -- but although the configure output said that x libraries were found, gxditview was not built. One other little glitch: the configure script said that "ln -s" does not work, so the Makefile tried to use "ln" - which caused an error when I tried to build. I had to manually amend the Makefile to use "ln -s" instead. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:30 AM G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I could swear that at one point not too long ago, gxditview's pop-up > menu still worked. But now, for me, while it pops up with a left click > in the viewer/canvas area as it should, no menu item can be selected. > The keyboard accelerators still work, so the only feature this actually > inhibits is the printing dialog.[1] But it's still an ugly wart. > > Does this work for anyone else? > > Just run "gxditview", left-click in the big yellow canvas area, and try > to select _any_ menu item. > > I had feared that I somehow regressed this for groff 1.23, even though I > knew I hadn't touched gxditview's widget management code, but I now > suspect trouble elsewhere. For me, the same failure occurs with groff > 1.22.4 (Debian's version), stock 1.23.0, and Git HEAD. > > I compiled and installed groff 1.22.3 from source, even--same problem. > > Then I wanted to blame a Wayland vs. Xorg issue, mumbling something > to myself about event capture, but for me, it's broken in both. > > I therefore think that either (a) I am incorrectly remembering that this > ever worked, or (b) a recent Debian package upgrade, possibly of > libxaw7, libxt6, or libx11-6, regressed this. > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > Branden > > [1] This can be worked around by giving that dialog pop-up a keyboard > accelerator, too, like capital P (lowercase p is already taken). > -- Robert Goulding Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, Fellow, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.
