Bug#1055312: adduser: "addgroup user group" is mentioned in man page but does not work anymore (ex bug 664869)

user to an existing group. ... $ but when I try to add a user to a group, this is what it happens $ sudo addgroup donald ducks [sudo] password for boffi: fatal: addgroup with two arguments is an unspecified operation. $ as far as I can tell, this was the outcome of bug 664869, where the OP

Bug#1009647: xfstt: xset fp+ unix/:7101 reports "Incorrect font server address or syntax"

Package: xfstt Version: 1.11-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: giacomo.bo...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, as far as I can tell, I have xfstt running $ xfsinfo -server unix/:7101 name of server: unix/:7101 version number: 2 vendor string: HD vendor

Bug#976012: python3-qtconsole: funny window size (200x512 pixels) when starting

Package: python3-qtconsole Version: 4.7.6-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? $ jupyter qtconsole * What was the outcome of this action? a window sized 200x512 pixels, with the following top menu entries shown: "File", "Edit", "View", "»" * What

Bug#953810: /usr/bin/xmag: [xmag] Doesn't show the pixel RGB value any more.

Package: x11-apps Version: 7.7+8 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/xmag Dear Maintainer, sometimes I use xmag to query the RGB value of a pixel on the screen but now if I click in its window instead of a display of the RGB value I see, in the terminal window from which I launched it, the error

Bug#945115: armagetronad does not find itself (and fails to start)

Package: armagetronad Version: 0.2.8.3.4-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I tried to start the program, the following message was printed - Error: Error in tString GeneratePrefix() in ../../src/tools/tDirectories.cpp:1359 : Relocation error.

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

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

19 at 9:35 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > boffi, le mar. 14 mai 2019 19:29:14 +0200, a ecrit: > > I'd like to see compiz-boxmenu > > <https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz-boxmenu> > > in Debian. > > Could you help with this? To be able to create a packa

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

Source: compiz Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I'd like to see compiz-boxmenu in Debian. Thank you for compiz, ciao · g -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')

Bug#927140: getdp compiled without support for gmsh

Package: getdp Version: 3.0.4+dfsg1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I was trying to familiarize with dpget, running the tutorials available on https://gitlab.onelab.info/doc/tutorials but when I followed the instructions contained, e.g., in the MagneticForces subdirectory > To compute

Bug#919676: /usr/bin/aosd_cat: undocumented non-standard way to specify font size

Package: aosd-cat Version: 0.2.7-1.1+b1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/aosd_cat Dear Maintainer, when I specify a font size to a program using fontconfig I usually do, e.g., xterm -fa mono-18 or xterm -fa mono:size=18 while for aosd_cat the invocation must be aosd_cat --font

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

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 o

Bug#917379: compiz-plugins-extra: wallpaper plugin: solid fill/gradients broken

Package: compiz-plugins-extra Version: 2:0.8.16-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, following a recent update the wallpaper plugin ceased to render solid fills and horizontal/vertical gradients. If I put in the backgrounds list an image it gets rendered irrispective of the image's position in

Bug#915683: kazam: confirm

Package: kazam Version: 1.4.5-2 Followup-For: Bug #915683 Dear Maintainer, I have the same backtrace as reported in Bug #915683. Regards, g -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Bug#915037: compiz: emerald?

Source: compiz Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the package description (`apt show compiz`) includes Suggests: compiz-mate, compiz-plugins-extra, compiz-plugins-experimental, emerald, fusion-icon but `sudo apt install emerald` replies Package emerald is not available,

Bug#911862: fontconfig: Obscure message: "Unable to revert mtime: /usr/local/share/fonts"

// $ ls -l /usr/local/share/fonts/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 boffi staff 0 Oct 25 17:28 asdef $ groups boffi ... staff ... $ Thanks a lot ፨ gb -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux

Bug#904082: compiz-plugins: wallpaper plugin, the gradients are drawn with a light and a dark stripe in them

Package: compiz-plugins Version: 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, I use the "wallpaper" plugin and I use it to draw different vertical gradients on the different faces of the cube. My typical gradient goes from a light, low saturation color to a darker, more

Bug#900563: cairo-dock-switcher-plug-in: switcher doesn't respect its own configuration file

Package: cairo-dock-switcher-plug-in Version: 3.4.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I have stopped cairo-dock (as in killall cairo-dock) and edited the switcher configuration file, to change the desktop names from "Main", "Desk1" etc to names of my liking $ grep 'desktop names'

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

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

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Alex ARNAUD <alexarn...@hypra.fr> wrote: > Hello boffi, > > Thank you for helping us to make Compiz better. > > I'm using Debian Stretch with the latest Compiz version and my configuration > of the place window module is as follow: > -

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

Package: compiz-plugins Version: 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I activated the "Place Windows" plugin * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? n/a * What was the outcome of

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

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#894357: firefox: no Debian Menu System entry

Package: firefox Version: 59.0.2-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I clicked on the root menu of TWM and tried to find an entry to launch Firefox in "Debian/Applications/Network/Web Browsing" * What was the outcome of this action? I couldn't see a menu entry

Bug#881805: /usr/bin/xset: [xset] "xset +fp unix/:7101" doesn't work

Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.7+7+b1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xset Dear Maintainer, I wish to be able to use TTF fonts with ancient X programs that understand only XLFD, so I installed the packages "xfstt" and "x11-xfs-utils". Firstly I verified that the font server was running

Bug#871547: general: Can't change to any other background.

Package: cinnamon Version: 3.2.7-4 Followup-For: Bug #871547 Dear Maintainer, I confirm the bug reported in Bug#871547, "Can't change to any other background". -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#869185: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoctk/texdoctk.pl: kpsewhich cannot find the configuration file, texdoctk dies

Package: texlive-base Version: 2017.20170629-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texdoctk/texdoctk.pl Dear Maintainer, I started texdoctk from the command line, a dialog popped out stating Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc.defaults and the

Bug#858512: xfstt: xset fp+ unix/:7101 -> Incorrect font server address or syntax

Package: xfstt Version: 1.9.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I installed xfstt, reboot, checked to see if new fonts were available, read the fine manual, checked the output of "xset q" and eventually issued the command "xset fp+ unix/:7101" * What

Bug#844742: python-eyed3: new upstream release breaks jack (console cd ripper)

Package: python-eyed3 Version: 0.7.9-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the debian package "jack" (it is a condole cd ripper) depends on python-eyed3, so much that it executes, as a consistency check, the statement from eyeD3 import eyeD3 at a very early stage of its initialization. Of

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

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

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"

gt;> > > On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 15:21 +0100, Giacomo Boffi wrote: >>> > > > Package: bumblebee >>> > > > Version: 3.2.1-10 >>> > > > Severity: important >>> > > > File: /usr/bin/optirun >>> >

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

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

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"

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"

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"

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

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

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!

and on the right a welcome text. When I select a menu item in the left frame by clicking on it, in the other frame appear a formatted list of document descriptions, each one with a link, e.g., http://boffi-onderod/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html;. If I select a link in one of these descriptions by clicking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvsetkeys.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty (./file.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tex-gyre/t1qbk.fd) [1{/home/boffi/.texmf-var

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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?

: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.screenlets.ClearCalendar was not provided by any .service files Screenlet has already been added to /tmp/screenlets/screenlets.boffi.running Loading instances in: /home/boffi/.config/Screenlets/ClearCalendar/default/ No instance(s) found in session-path

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

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

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

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

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 [?]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

.tmp | xtpipes (2008-01-26-00:38) |java.version: 1.5.0 |java.class.path: /usr/share/tex4ht/tex4ht.jar |os.name: Linux |user.home: /home/boffi |user.dir: /home/boffi/dida/sismica_acciaio/oo | url = file:/home/boffi/dida/sismica_acciaio/oo/esercizio-m6.tmp | contentType

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: [...]

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