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

2019-06-03 Thread Giacomo Boffi
ooops! errata: specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, editing the menus, viewports and windows corrige: specialized clients are respectively for recent documents, desktops, viewports and windows g

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

2019-06-03 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Dear Samuel, here it is my attempt for a "Description" field for compiz-boxmenu **************72 Description: dbus daemon and clients providing pop-up menus to compiz. Boxmenu provides a number of different menus to the compositing window

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

2019-01-01 Thread Giacomo Boffi
The new version is OK wrt the placement of new windows, thanks a lot — g On Jan 1, 2019 19:43, "Samuel Thibault" wrote: Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hello, boffi, le lun. 21 mai 2018 00:30:49 +0200, a ecrit: >irrispective of the algorithm chosen, the plugin insists on placing new >

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

2018-05-24 Thread Giacomo Boffi
I forgot to mention, all the windows instantiated were correctedly(?) decorated... On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have another experiment, where > 1. I've started compiz redirecting both stdout and stderr to a file, > th

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

2018-05-23 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Dear Alex, I've checked and my settings are exactly - Placement Mode: Smart - Multi Output Mode: Use active output device To have a trace of the window placement, I have started my system with the following ~/.xsession file #!/bin/bash xset m 5 3 # fbsetroot -gradient vertical -fg red4 -bg

Bug#894357: Fwd: Bug#894357: firefox: no Debian Menu System entry

2018-03-29 Thread Giacomo Boffi
ooops, I replied to Alex only and not to the BTS, please find below what I said -- Forwarded message -- From: Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.bo...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Bug#894357: firefox: no Debian Menu System entry To: Alex ARNAUD &l

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

2016-11-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

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

2016-05-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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"

2016-05-03 Thread Giacomo Boffi
0 January 2016 at 19:50, Dariusz Dwornikowski > <dariusz.dwornikow...@cs.put.poznan.pl> 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: >&

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

2016-03-14 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

2016-03-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

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

2015-11-19 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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"

2015-11-19 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

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

2015-11-18 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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...

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

2015-06-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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#738203: fontmatrix: creates deprecated ~/.fonts.conf

2015-03-10 Thread giacomo boffi
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#779734: doc-central: no docs at all!

2015-03-04 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: doc-central Version: 1.8.3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, when I start doc-central from the command line, $ doccentral a new tab is opened in google chrome or in firefox, depending on my current settings, containing two frames, in species on the left I see a menu and on the

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

2015-03-04 Thread giacomo boffi
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.

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

2015-01-30 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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#776579: ImportError: cannot import name basemap

2015-01-29 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2014-09-30 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 gtk2

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

2014-09-24 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: pyspread Version: 0.3.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I started pyspread from bash, typing pyspread RET 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#755492: xfig: segfaults when drawing dashed-dotted lines

2014-07-21 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#684788: emacs24-lucid: segfaults on startup

2012-09-01 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2012-04-11 Thread giacomo boffi
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#645596: inkscape: high CPU usage on startup

2011-10-17 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2011-09-15 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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#627093: tex-gyre: pdfTeX fatal error using tgbonum

2011-05-17 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex-gyre Version: 2.004.1-2 Severity: important or using tgschola or... it seems that in any case, when i try to use the tex gyre fonts, pdf(la)tex tries to generate bitmap fonts while tex gyre should distribute OTF and Type 1 fonts i don't want to mention that i have no problem with

Bug#627093: package tex-gyre is ok, it's me...

2011-05-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
in the last lines of the pdflatex output there was a reference to a pdftex configuration file deep in a cache in a hidden directory (~/.texmf-var/) in my $HOME... the time stamp on that file was paleolitical (is it a remain from tetex age), so i removed the whole stuff and bingo, i can use all

Bug#627093: tex-gyre: pdfTeX fatal error using tgbonum

2011-05-17 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Hilmar Preusse writes: On 17.05.11 giacomo boffi (bo...@stru.polimi.it) wrote: Moin, [1{/home/boffi/.texmf-var/fonts/ map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] Could you remove these map files from your homedir (all files/dirs bewlo map), then run updmap-sys and try again? i did more

Bug#620360: python-tk: need for ttk

2011-04-01 Thread giacomo boffi
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,

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

2011-01-28 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2010-06-07 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#561612: bsdmainutils: [calendar] calendar.birthday lists some Emily Dickenson

2009-12-18 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: bsdmainutils Version: 8.0.3 Severity: minor calendar.birthday lists some Emily Dickenson that happens to share her birthday with the famous poet Emily Dickinson i'd prefer to have listed the poet... ciao gb -- System Information:

Bug#558093: python-wxgtk2.8: cannot import wx.aui module

2009-11-26 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: python-wxgtk2.8 Version: 2.8.7.1-2+b1 Severity: normal I see the following behaviour on my system: -- % python Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Nov 19 2009, 19:46:21) [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2 Type help,

Bug#551186: iceweasel: quits when there's only 1 tab and i hit close tab shortcut (^W)

2009-10-16 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.3-2 Severity: normal i don't know if the change was deliberate or it is simply a regression... in any case recent package reverted to a very old behavior, that was corrected years ago, namely iceweasel now quits when there's only 1 tab and i hit the close tab

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

2009-09-29 Thread giacomo boffi
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#544666: completion works on filesystem object instead of gnuplot's commands

2009-09-02 Thread giacomo boffi
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')

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

2009-08-03 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: screenlets Version: 0.1.2-6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable when i try to instantiate a screenlet i get the following % python /usr/share/screenlets/ClearCalendar/ClearCalendarScreenlet.py CachingBackend: Loading instances from cache No Daemon, Launching Daemon

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

2009-08-03 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-12 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 problem

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-11 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

Bug#531797: request for more information

2009-06-09 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 installed

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

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
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

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2009-06-04 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2009-05-27 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2009-05-27 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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: ii python-compizconfig 0.7.6-1

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

2009-05-19 Thread giacomo boffi
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:

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

2009-03-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

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

2009-03-06 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Giacomo Boffi writes: user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py animation/dynamic_image_wxagg2.py the filenames are, of course, ...wx2.py, ...wx3.py and ...wx4.py -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous

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

2009-03-05 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Sandro Tosi writes: about --- from wx import * --- Mh, there is no reasons why from module import * should not work, and indeed there is a bug already reported about it: #488532 i have googled around, it seems that this problem was repeatedly reported to distributions

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

2009-03-04 Thread giacomo boffi
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

2009-03-04 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Sandro Tosi writes: Hello Giacomo, On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:00, giacomo boffi bo...@stru.polimi.it wrote: all the examples about integration between matplotlib and wx applications are broken Is it possible for you to test the package in experimental (0.98.5.2-1) and let me

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

2008-12-11 Thread giacomo boffi
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#501661: patch for zxpdf to look for compressed files

2008-10-09 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-09-03 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-07-04 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 the .doc using some sort of word Unreproducible. I don't

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

2008-07-02 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-07-02 Thread giacomo boffi
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 Line

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

2008-06-25 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-06-16 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-06-16 Thread giacomo boffi
Package: tex4ht Version: 20080614-1 Severity: normal let say that i have a latex source named esercizio.tex, when i execute % mkdir sxw-esercizio.dir ; /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex esercizio.tex (please see my previous bug report for the mkdir) the subsequent invocation from different scripts of

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

2008-06-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 htlatex

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

2008-06-16 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 examine this failure of mkdir further

Bug#479438: [confirm] aptitude hangs after installs

2008-06-03 Thread giacomo boffi
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#477313: ControlScreenlet: Applications menu has all entries doubled

2008-04-22 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2008-04-22 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 my

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

2008-04-01 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2007-06-13 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

2007-06-13 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 revert to the old behavior by defining

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

2007-06-13 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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

Bug#389864: rgb text database replaced by static table

2007-06-08 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 (see

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

2007-06-06 Thread giacomo boffi
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#427623: vtwm dies on C-z

2007-06-05 Thread giacomo boffi
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#426012: python-scipy: cannot install

2007-05-25 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#423837: swisswatch does not understand the editres protocol

2007-05-14 Thread giacomo boffi
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 editres

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

2006-11-28 Thread giacomo boffi
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#389864: xserver-xorg-core: Default RgbPath broken

2006-10-18 Thread giacomo boffi
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#389864: xserver-xorg-core: /usr/bin/Xorg does not find rgb.txt

2006-09-29 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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.conf Section Files should serve as a workaround. sorry, but for the sake of brevity i did

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

2006-09-28 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2006-09-28 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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}/share/X11/rgb XSF: That looks wrong... Giacomo, adding

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

2006-05-25 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2006-05-10 Thread Giacomo Boffi
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 upgrade the

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

2006-04-22 Thread giacomo boffi
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

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

2006-04-13 Thread giacomo boffi
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

2006-04-13 Thread giacomo boffi
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:

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

2006-03-29 Thread giacomo boffi
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,

Bug#338281: idesk: changes the desktop background

2005-11-08 Thread giacomo boffi
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

Bug#334480: velvet: Segmentation fault

2005-10-18 Thread giacomo boffi
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#290884: title w/o buttons breaks vtwm

2005-01-17 Thread giacomo boffi
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