Package: mlterm
Version: 3.9.3-1+b1
Severity: important
Tags: a11y
X-Debbugs-Cc: a.t.chadw...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
The mlconfig helper does not support --geometry, so it can’t be invoked by
the user using its Ctrl+MouseButton3 binding, which tries to use this
option. If mlterm is run from a different terminal, it instead prints the
message “Unknown option --geometry” when this combination is pressed,
without giving any other indication of what it’s trying to do. See the
trace below for that detail.
I think that mlterm should invoke this command without --geometry, or the
mlconfig helper should be patched to support the --geometry option. I can
confirm that this functionality was working correctly under Debian 12’s
version of mlterm and its supporting binaries.
thanks for looking at this,
Andrew
-- Trace for message:
$ rm -fr ~/.mlterm
$ strace -ff mlterm 2>&1 | grep geometry
[pid 136423] execve("mlconfig", ["mlconfig", "--geometry", "+1371+345",
"--display", ":0.0"], 0x7fffd47338b8 /* 59 vars */) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
[pid 136423] execve("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mlterm/mlconfig",
["/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mlterm"..., "--geometry", "+1371+345", "--display",
":0.0"], 0x7fffd47338b8 /* 59 vars */) = 0
[pid 136423] write(2, "Unknown option --geometry\n", 26Unknown option --geometry
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (5, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mlterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.37-15
ii libfreetype6 2.13.2+dfsg-1+b1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-3+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.78.4-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.7-1
ii mlterm-common 3.9.3-1+b1
Versions of packages mlterm recommends:
ii mlterm-tools 3.9.3-1+b1
Versions of packages mlterm suggests:
pn fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp <none>
pn fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp <none>
ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20211204+svn4273-2
ii fonts-ipafont-gothic [fonts-japanese-gothic] 00303-23
ii fonts-nanum 20200506-1
pn mlterm-im-m17nlib <none>
pn mlterm-im-scim <none>
pn mlterm-im-uim <none>
pn t1-cyrillic <none>
ii unifont 1:15.1.01-1
pn xfonts-efont-unicode <none>
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