Bug#1057119:

2023-12-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
mpv bug I opened, now closed: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/13062 looks like this is mutter? some gnome desktop component? For now, I don't know what or how to test further.

Bug#1057119:

2023-12-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
See also https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/11342

Bug#1057119: mpv: wayland/gnome crash, after fullscreen or zoom video, then quit mpv

2023-11-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: mpv Version: 0.35.1-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, default debian gnome wayland desktop consistently crashes when using mpv to play a video (or gif) then zooming then quitting. Able to test - I reported initially against intel video driver:

Bug#872778: xterm -lc (with UTF-8 locale) cannot properly copy some utf-8 unicode chars

2018-09-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Thomas is there any other test I can run on Debian stable? > > fwiw "locale" says > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE= > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" >

Bug#872778: xterm -lc (with UTF-8 locale) cannot properly copy some utf-8 unicode chars

2018-09-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 04:47:28AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 08:05:51PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Create a text file containing e.g. the musical natural symbol, and > > the mathematical function symbol, e.g. "ƒƒƒ ♮♮♮" (three func

Bug#872778: xterm -lc (with UTF-8 locale) cannot properly copy some utf-8 unicode chars

2018-08-22 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Create a text file containing e.g. the musical natural symbol, and the mathematical function symbol, e.g. "ƒƒƒ ♮♮♮" (three function symbols, a space, and three natural symbols, inside plain quotes). Now in an xterm -lc instance, with a UTF-8 locale, cat the file. xterm displays the function and

Bug#906674: consequences to deleting a (generic name) alternative? - reverse dependencies on ImageMagick binaries?

2018-08-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ImageMagick (IM) seems to be needed (at least on XFCE desktop) for the PDF printer (cups-filters). There are many apparent rdepends of IM, from a2ps and devede to inkscape and sunclock. ImageMagick in Debian stable is a bit of a bush pig, dominating the /usr/bin default PATH namespace with a

Bug#906674: imagemagick: Sub-commands by default are symlinked into PATH (/usr/bin), "import" is a problem

2018-08-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: imagemagick Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, Bash has flexible similarity between scripts and the REPL/command shell. Enhancing the shell requires choosing and using a name - a name identifies a command, program, script (file),

Bug#861584: xfwm4 bug report filed

2017-05-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
See XFCE / xfwm4 bug report filed here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13575 See recent email here: https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2017-May/035584.html

Bug#861606: mutt: header cache file(s) not being created

2017-05-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: mutt Version: 1.5.23-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, mutt-patched is not creating header_cache files. I tested also with all other muttrc options commented out except for this one: set header_cache = "~/Mail/mutt-cache/" and yet when I open a folder, and then quit mutt, never is a

Bug#673232: mutt shutdown

2017-05-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Yes, mutt should be able to shutdown nicely. When editing a draft email though the external editor, e.g. vim, emacs etc, also needs to do something sane. For starters, the temp files of any draft you are editing can be saved in a custom tmp dir, e.g.: set tmpdir = "~/Mail/mutt-editor-drafts/"

Bug#160678: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#524711: xfwm4: New window placement problem

2017-05-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This would be a nice feature to have. At the moment, to create the desired swapping between wrap and no wrap, in the pager, one must use two key bindings (rather, macros), rather than just one to "inv"ert the value, as in the following example workaround: macro pager w "set wrap=0" macro pager W

Bug#861537: detox: git, upstream, and tags/branches ?

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hello Eriberto and Doug, I just added github as an "upstream" remote to my local detox git repo, which was cloned from Debian's. 1) git had to download the entire upstream repo, saying specifically: $ git fetch upstream warning: no common commits remote: Counting objects: 310, done. remote:

Bug#861584: xfwm4: xfmw4 dual-monitor (landscape+portrait) new xterm on "other" monitor incorrectly resized

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: xfwm4 Version: 4.10.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, See original email here: https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2017-April/035547.html Two monitors, each 1920x1200 resolution, LHS monitor in landscape RHS in portrait. So the total "X desktop" space (e.g. on

Bug#832271: xfwm4: maximize behavior differs between screens of a dual-screen setup

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Could be related to: xfwm4: Workspaces should have different margins for different screen on multihead https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530965

Bug#530965: xfwm4: Workspaces should have different margins for different screen on multihead

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:14:26PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > This bug is probably solved now - the OP didn't give a specific > example, but when I maximize a window e.g. firefox, xfwm4 correctly > maximises depending on the monitor I maximise on. > > Have not tested with

Bug#530965: xfwm4: Workspaces should have different margins for different screen on multihead

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This bug is probably solved now - the OP didn't give a specific example, but when I maximize a window e.g. firefox, xfwm4 correctly maximises depending on the monitor I maximise on. Have not tested with gkrellm.

Bug#524711: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#524711: xfwm4: New window placement problem

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
>> When I turn off 2), all new windows appear underneath, which is not >> what >> I want. I would like new windows to appear on top, but not above >> (and >> therefore cover, and take mouse/keyboard focus) a window that is >> currently in the middle of a mouse/keyboard action. > > Well, then

Bug#861537: [PATCH 5] Fix table/unicode.tbl '#' quoting

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- the number/hash/sharp symbol is now quoted - looks like this has not been used much, hopefully this utf-8 pathway will see more use soon --- table/unicode.tbl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/table/unicode.tbl b/table/unicode.tbl index 5828787..4753a03

Bug#861537: [PATCH] Fix Debian Bug#861537: malformed UTF-8 chars in output - failure to fall through

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Found the clean_utf_8() bug too (PATCH 4 above). Now the question comes to mind "why doesn't replacing space with '_' work in utf_8 mode?" Detox newbie here, so perhaps there's an obvious reason, but at least now we can cascade through from safe(), to utf_8(), as needed.

Bug#861537: [PATCH 4] Fix UTF-8 pathway, so fall through works properly.

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- This should solve the malformed output bugs on each of the three main pathways. - Also made one of the new table files sane. --- src/clean_string.c | 2 +- table/punct2.tbl | 20 ++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/clean_string.c

Bug#861537: [PATCH 3] Tidy up table sample filenames - optional patch

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- just tidy up the sample table filenames - sample files need to be installed (and are on Debian), at least for new users, and shouldn't end with ".sample" - also this patch has little undo for space->tab conversion problem in last patch (sorry) --- etc/detoxrc.sample

Bug#861537: [PATCH 2/2] Add "fall through" sequences and samples

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- These of course rely on the previous patch - fixing the detox bug causing malformed UTF-8 chars. - example table files provided, and can easily imagine some people will now come up with specific sets of files which would work for their language, e.g. Java creates (anonymous class)

Bug#861537: [PATCH] Fix Debian Bug#861537: malformed UTF-8 chars in output - failure to fall through

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
- Debian bug is Bug#861537 - when constructing a custom detox "translation table" with the fall through option (no default specified, or "default" without a value), detox creates malformed characters in the output - every "clean_*" code path is effected. - clean_iso8859_1() and

Bug#861537: detox: causes malformed UTF-8 characters when no default character is set - fails to "fall through"

2017-04-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: detox Version: 1.2.0-5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch Dear Maintainer, detox does not "pass through" - that is, when configuring a .tbl table file with not default, or "default" with nothing else on the line, followed by those changes I want to achieve with my files, detox fails

Bug#819465: /sbin/losetup: losetup -l -a fails to work when /dev/loop/ (directory) exists

2016-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 03:27:00PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > > Any comments to convince me to reconsider closing this as wontfix? > > > > All I can add is that I have no preference for which way (old/new) that > > loop nodes are represented in the filesystem, but that, for control in >

Bug#819465: /sbin/losetup: losetup -l -a fails to work when /dev/loop/ (directory) exists

2016-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:38:01PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > FWIW, I think it is much tidier to have all loop devices in a sub > > directory of /dev/ , but my personal scripts need their own directory > > anyway, and I think that /dev/loop/ should contain all "default" / > > "auto

Bug#835382: liblog4j2-java-doc: depends on default-jdk-doc, mysteriously and unnecessarily

2016-08-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: liblog4j2-java-doc Version: 2.0~beta9-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I tried to run eclipse, and got an error "Unrecognized VM option 'UseStringDeduplication'"

Bug#383840: Solution to this bug: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias is the culprit - aliases need to be updated to 10646-1

2016-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias is the culprit and needs to be updated with modern UCS / UTF8 / UTF-8 / ISO10646-1 alias defaults. The problem is that this file specifies as default font alias, for example: 6x10 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 Note the "iso8859-1"

Bug#289078: should probably be closed

2016-08-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I believe this is an overstrike or "fake bolding" issue. With such tiny fonts, it is essential to disable xterm's auto bolding feature, for example in ~/.Xresources as follows: *xterm.allowBoldFonts: false *vt100.allowBoldFonts: false or alternatively set your bold font to match your normal font,

Bug#822438: a hint at the source of the problem

2016-08-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Here's a hint at the source of the problem: > http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ > " > XFree86 Xlib calls setlocale(3), but with values in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/. If you - particularly after an upgrade - get > a "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C", then have a >

Bug#822438: a hint at the source of the problem

2016-08-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Here's a hint at the source of the problem: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ " XFree86 Xlib calls setlocale(3), but with values in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/. If you - particularly after an upgrade - get a "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C", then have a look into

Bug#822438: debian locales - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822438

2016-08-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi Michael, I just tried to subscribe to this bug, it affects custom locales too, see e.g.: http://askubuntu.com/questions/21316/how-can-i-customize-a-system-locale Have you solved this yet? In my case, I create a custom locale, as per instructions above, set locale to my custom locale: # cat

Bug#819465: /sbin/losetup: losetup -l -a fails to work when /dev/loop/ (directory) exists

2016-03-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: mount Version: 2.25.2-6 Severity: normal File: /sbin/losetup Dear Maintainer, Not sure if this is upstream. BUG: losetup fails to list loop devices in use when /dev/loop directory exists. I thought the /dev/loop-control file was all that was needed by losetup, but perhaps not - it's

Bug#728669: analysis link of goldbug, its developers and etc

2015-04-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@cpunks.org/msg05277.html goldbug and all its developers now have zero credibility with me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#742578: reopen, retitle 742578, and add details

2014-10-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
: Zenaan Harkness Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:52:00 +1100 Subject: Re: Processed: reassign 742578 apt Hi Ritesh, please let me know if my thinking is right on the following (I'm a user, not a DD): $ apt-get --version apt 1.0.9.2 for amd64 compiled on Oct 2 2014 22:36:40 ... $ apt --version apt 1.0.9.2

Bug#736258: acpid won't stop, won't upgrade (systemd) - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736258

2014-07-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Debian sid acpid | 1:2.0.22-3 Interrelated problem A: $ ps aux|egrep -i acpid root 318 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?S 12:40 0:00 [ktpacpid] root 19855 0.0 0.0 4372 972 ?Ss 17:45 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid $ sudo systemctl stop acpid Job for acpid.service canceled. $

Bug#736682: linux-image-3.12-1-rt-amd64 3.12.8-1 fails to boot too early for netconsole; 3.12.6-2 succeeds

2014-01-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: src:linux Version: 3.12.8-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** As subject says, the previous version 3.12.6-2 of the -rt-amd64 kernel boots on my Lenovo X220 laptop, the current

Bug#736335: gladish does not allow viewing of jack settings or copying of application settings

2014-01-22 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: gladish Version: 1+dfsg0-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** As I continue to set up my audio system and experiment, I discover that each time I need to check some jackd settings, I have to stop my

Bug#736074: calf-plugins: calf plugins lack graph display components, Calf Analyzer is empty, others still functional

2014-01-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: calf-plugins Version: 0.0.19+git20131202-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** When running a jackd session of some sort, the Calf plugins work in general, except for the graph display components of the plugins. This

Bug#736074: reassigned - only applies to jalv; was: calf-plugins: calf plugins lack graph display components, Calf Analyzer is empty, others still functional

2014-01-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:59:36PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Package: calf-plugins I reassigned this to package jalv Dear Maintainer, When running a jackd session of some sort, the Calf plugins work in general, except for the graph display components of the plugins. This is the case

Bug#736131: Feature: in calfjackhost, add bypass buttons, and optionally input and output gain knobs

2014-01-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: calf-plugins Version: 0.0.19+git20131202-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I am setting up a nice jackd based system, and calfjackhost rocks! However, I find myself clicking Edit button repeatedly,

Bug#736132: ladish: wmctrl integration to track and reset window locations and sizes, per-studio

2014-01-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: ladish Version: 1+dfsg0-4 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** When I stop and start my studio (with gladish), I would like ladish to restore my window locations. I run alsaplayer, a compressor, two

Bug#622595: duplicate of 359717

2013-07-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This looks like a duplicate of: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359717 -- Free Australia: www.UPMART.org Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#359717: /bin/mountpoint bug: mount -o bind /dir /dir, creates a mountpoint for which /bin/mountpoint is unsuccessful

2013-07-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Sent this in 2010 as email to pkg-sysvinit-devel... : PS: now I'm on sid, the following was from 2010: To use 'mount --make-rshared' on say /media or /mnt, requires that I first run: mount -o bind /media /media to create a mountpoint at /media, so that subsequently I can successfully run: mount

Bug#359717: bash workaround

2013-07-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If using bash, this is what I've come to in my local bashlib, over the last few years: isMounted () { # make sure a target/ arg is passed in: [ -z $1 ] return 1 # turn target into fully qualified filename/ location # (not doing so can cause problems with some of the tests I've tried,

Bug#694332: systemctl man page deficiency re user needing to be in adm group

2012-11-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: systemd Version: 44-5 When I run systemctl status normally gives for a service, status output _and_ last 10 lines of journal output. Unless run as root (eg via sudo) or the user is in the adm group, only status is shown, and not the journal entries. The systemctl man page fails to

Bug#694332: systemctl man page deficiency re user needing to be in adm group

2012-11-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 25.11.2012 16:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Package: systemd Version: 44-5 When I run systemctl status normally gives for a service, status output _and_ last 10 lines of journal output. Unless run as root (eg via sudo) or the user is in the adm group, only status is shown

Bug#693843: systemd hangs on fstab directory bindmount

2012-11-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
OK, speaking of gooses, I've discovered the goose is me. I've just spent an hour testing and retesting, trying to recreate the problem! Quite exasperating. So I went back to previous versions of fstab, finally digging up an old internal IDE drive from a previous laptop, to find what I'd somehow

Bug#693843: systemd hangs on fstab directory bindmount

2012-11-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
PS, This is still just an assumption, as I don't have a photographic memory of every command I ran over the last week, but it's the only way I can recreate something that appears similar/same as I experienced before, so it seems to me, the most likely possibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#681879: provide file:// url/uri packages/ download option alongside http:// and ftp://

2012-07-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This used to be possible! This morning I remembered that a few years ago (about 2008, perhaps earlier), I could drop into a shell, and configure something, then return to continue the installation with a file:// url for packages for installing a system. Anyone know how to do that now? Zen -- To

Bug#681879: provide file:// url/uri packages/ download option alongside http:// and ftp://

2012-07-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120716 testing Severity: wishlist When using expert-install, option is provided to get packages from a http:// or an ftp:// URL. file:// option should also be provided. This implies either command shell mounting, or some DI .udeb to provide a 'mount