Package: mcabber Version: 0.10.2-1 Severity: normal The module "xttitle" included with mcabber, which changes the title bar of a terminal window to indicate unread message counts, doesn't work most of the time.
If you load it as part of the startup of mcabber, you can see it set the initial default title "MCabber", but it won't update it later. If you load it interactively after the app is fully running, it does nothing at all. I spent quite a bit of time debugging this code, and it appears to be doing everything it should be doing. It simply uses printf() with the usual escape codes (ESC]0;) and (\a). Debugging shows that the string is indeed printed, but the title isn't set. On rare occasions, maybe one percent of the time, it actually does set the title, or prints the intended title string into the input buffer area, corrupting the display. This used to work under Wheezy. Building older or newer versions of mcabber doesn't have any effect. Changing title in other situations (i.e. with PS1 in a shell, or with echo) still works fine. Switching to a different terminal emulator has no effect on this problem. My suspicion is that some change in ncurses between Wheezy and Jessie broke this, especially given that the functionality works exactly when ncurses hasn't taken over the terminal yet. However, I know of no other ncurses app which includes title-setting functionality, so I can't test that theory. (Debugging ncurses is beyond my ability.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mcabber depends on: ii libaspell15 0.60.7~20110707-1.3 ii libassuan0 2.1.2-2 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgpg-error0 1.17-3 ii libgpgme11 1.5.1-6 ii libidn11 1.29-1+b2 ii libloudmouth1-0 1.4.3-12 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libotr5 4.1.0-2 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 mcabber recommends no packages. mcabber suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
