Bug#702492: RFS: anox/2.2-1

2013-03-07 Thread Sébastien Bertrand
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "anox". anoX aims to provide a simple and powerful way to run an application, mainly games, in another X server. The goal is to bypass bugs such as wine's windows disappearing when using Comp

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:36:18AM +0100, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: > > From the UNIX point of view, they are not. > > It seems that xinit behave this way, the following commands do not > give the same result : > xinit tremulous -- :1 > xinit tremulous --quiet -- :1 > xinit "tremulous --quiet" --

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:30:38AM +0100, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: > > calling > > > > foo "bar x" > > > > is not the same as calling > > > > foo bar x. > > >From the point of view of anoX, these two commands are the same. From the UNIX point of view, they are not. -- Andrea Bolognani Resi

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-09 Thread Sébastien Bertrand
Le 9 déc. 2011 10:27, "Ansgar Burchardt" a écrit : > > Sébastien Bertrand writes: > >> - It probably does not handle whitespace in command names or > >> directories. > > > > It handles complex command without problem. > > How? anonx does > > app = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) # Pick all arguments

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Sébastien Bertrand writes: >>  - It probably does not handle whitespace in command names or >>   directories. > > It handles complex command without problem. How? anonx does app = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) # Pick all arguments, but calling foo "bar x" is not the same as calling foo bar

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Gevers
>>> - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". >> >> I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should >> just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). > ---end quoted text--- > > No, it's not always free. For example, it happens with me sometimes that > X would crash for

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:50:53PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Sebastien Bertrand wrote: > > >> It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". > > > > I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should > > just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug).

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: >>  - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". > > I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should > just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). You can't assume that the user has not setup X server :1 on vt8 on

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:39:56AM +0100, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your interest. > > >  - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". > > I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should > just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). ---end quoted

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Sébastien Bertrand
Dear mentors, I've uploaded a new version of my package "anox", and I am looking for a sponsor. * Package name: anox Version : 2.1-1 Upstream Author : Sébastien Bertrand * URL : https://launchpad.net/anox * License : GPL-3+ Section : x11 It bu

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Sébastien Bertrand
Hi, Thank you for your interest. >  - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". I do not understand why this is a problem, the eight terminal should just be free (it's more a limitation than a bug). >  - It uses /tmp in an unsafe way (eg. predictable filename).  Please use >   one of the methods

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Sébastien Bertrand writes: >anox - run an application in another X server While I don't plan to sponsor this, I found a few bugs after a short look at the package: - It's hardcoded to use "xinit -- :1 vt8". - It uses /tmp in an unsafe way (eg. predictable filename). Please use on

RFS: anox

2011-12-07 Thread Sébastien Bertrand
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "anox". * Package name: anox Version : 2.0-1 Upstream Author : Sébastien Bertrand * URL : https://launchpad.net/anox * License : GPL-3+ Section : x11 It builds those binary packages: a