Bug#683942: #683942 xterm: alternate screen scrolling

2012-09-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I've applied a change for this which will appear in the #282 updates. Woo hoo, thanks! Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#683942: xterm: alternate screen scrolling

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Excerpts from Thomas Dickey's message of Sun Aug 05 11:06:02 -0700 2012: On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:40:22AM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Is there another way for me to get this behavior? It's fairly simple as an addition to xterm, probably hard other ways... That sounds like a note that I

Bug#683942: xterm: alternate screen scrolling

2012-08-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 278-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I used gnome-terminal recently and noticed that using the mouse wheel caused scrolling within apps like vim. I thought that was strange, because I disabled mouse support in vim. It turns out gnome-terminal has a feature called

Bug#566600: state of the bell

2010-02-01 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I'm having trouble with my X11 bell too (in current unstable), and I see a few bugs outstanding (564200, 564464, 566600). It seems to me that there are multiple issues, and they might be getting confused. I'll add my observations here and try to help sort things out. First, my .xsession has two

Bug#541117: xserver-xorg-video-intel: high CPU usage after 2.7.1-1 - 2.8.0-1 upgrade

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:56:16AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: According to errors in your log, something's going bad with DRM. Does this log come from a second X server while another X server was already using the DRM device? Damn, I don't know why I didn't notice that. No, it was the only X

Bug#525123: xserver-xorg-video-intel on Intel 82852/855GM: display corrupted

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Following up on my message to this bug When I upgraded to driver version 2.8.0, I had terrible performance. I reported it as bug 541117. It turned out that I had to re-enable dri to fix that. Fortunately, I don't see this bug any more! Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#541117: xserver-xorg-video-intel: high CPU usage after 2.7.1-1 - 2.8.0-1 upgrade

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.8.0-1 Severity: important After upgrading from 2.7.1-1, firefox is terribly slow and causes xorg to pin the CPU for several seconds when (for example) switching tabs. I'm running kernel linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 on a Thinkpad X40. I've looked through

Bug#525123: xserver-xorg-video-intel on Intel 82852/855GM: display corrupted

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I observe the same on my Thinkpad X40, and use the workaround of disabling DRI (thanks Joe!). This is the first version of the -intel driver I've tried; the -i810 driver worked fine. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#528261: xserver-xorg: new mouse configuration needs examples

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.4+1 Severity: wishlist I found out from NEWS.Debian about the changes to configuration of input devices in X. It all seems fine, except that it took me a while to figure out exactly how to port over my xorg.conf to HAL (file location, syntax, restarting hald).

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding xev -id missing some events. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Thank you again for following

Bug#264016: fvwm: FvwmForm uses bad fonts in utf-8 locale

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:49:40AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding FvwmForm using bad fonts in utf8 locale. Do you still experience this problem today? No. It seems that fonts with the iso8859-1 encoding now display fine in a UTF-8

Bug#264017: iso8859-1 fonts work fine in a UTF-8 locale

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
In following up on bug 264016, I found that this bug no longer occurs (in unstable). A font with an iso8859-1 displays just fine in my UTF-8 locale. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#241423: xserver-xfree86: [nv] fails for GeForce FX Go5200 rev 161

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:40:32PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: About 2 years ago, you reported (or replied to) a bug in the Debian BTS regarding a failure of the X server on a nVidia GeForce RX Go2500 board. Did any of you guys reproduce this problem recently? This hardware is long gone for me.

Bug#216161: xserver-xfree86: font resolution not following the rules

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:59:38AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding font resolution not following the rules. Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Well, I can confirm the same

Bug#366180: xkb-data: many files in /etc/X11/xkb (from xlibs) orphaned in X11R7 transition

2006-05-05 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xkb-data Version: 0.8-5 Severity: normal When upgrading through the transition to X11R7, I purged the xlibs package and installed xkb-data. I got many warnings: dpkg - warning: while removing xlibs, directory `/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning:

Bug#365984: xfonts-base: old font dirs in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts not removed

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xfonts-base Version: 1:1.0.0-3 Severity: minor I'm not sure if this is the right place to report this, and it's probably a known issue, but I couldn't find any mention of it. With the X transition, font directories under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts are not being removed because they still

Bug#359006: xterm: unicode glyph rendering glitch

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 210-2 Severity: minor Unicode characters generally render properly in my xterm, using LANG=en_US.UTF-8, however I just noticed a glitch. When U+2218 is rendered in some colors, it turns into the dashed box that usually denotes a bad character. To reproduce: - start vim

Bug#346098: patch in 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4

2006-03-23 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:08:18PM +0100, Niko Ehrenfeuchter wrote: afaics, the above mentioned patch is included in 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (at least from what i've seen in the deb-sources), but unfortunately EmulateWheel still doesn't work for me with this version (up-to-date testing). I even tried

Bug#348384: xterm: please restore default charClass

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I want to strongly second the opinion of Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I find that in fact the new behavior makes it harder to select URLs! When I read mail in mutt, the URL often wraps to a new line and in preceded by a '+' character. Double-clicking the URL selects the '+', so I must

Bug#320136: [patch] EmulateWheel button press broken

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
As reported in two Debian bug reports [1] [2], the ability for the EmulateWheelButton to generate button events was broken shortly before the 6.9 release. It is still broken in current Debian unstable package 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3, and I believe it is still broken in x.org CVS. It was broken by version

Bug#258399: xlibs: dvorak keyboard layout is missing right alt key

2005-08-02 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:44:39PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Shouldn't the line include level3(ralt_switch_multikey) (line 64) simply be removed from pc/dvorak? You are fully right. As there have been various

Bug#258399: xlibs: dvorak keyboard layout is missing right alt key

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I'm another dvorak user who is annoyed by this behavior, and from reading this bug log, I can't figure out what the difficulty is. Shouldn't the line include level3(ralt_switch_multikey) (line 64) simply be removed from pc/dvorak? This is part of the basic definition, and does not seem to

Bug#319099: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xfree86-common Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 Severity: minor Trying to purge xfree86-common: Removing xfree86-common ... Purging configuration files for xfree86-common ... update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/xfree86-common exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force) I have not touched

Bug#288928: remove all traces of Speedo

2005-07-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I upgraded xfonts-scalable in unstable, and it seems that this request (to remove Speedo fonts) was granted. However, /etc/X11/fonts/Speedo is still in xfonts-scalable.list, and: Unpacking replacement xfonts-scalable ... dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file

Bug#291787: xterm: selection is cleared by scrolling

2005-01-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 4.1.0-16woody5 Severity: normal First, I want to say I couldn't be more pleased by the recent effort (bug 277832) to improve selection handling. The new behavior is generally quite pleasant. However, there appears to be a significant regression. Any time the terminal

Bug#277890: xutils: file conflict with xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8

2004-10-26 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:46:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:44:05AM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Package: xutils Version: 4.1.0-16woody3 Severity: minor When upgrading xutils on my mixed stable/unstable system, I got Preparing to replace

Bug#276447: xterm sometimes leaves some of the highlighted selection out of the X selection

2004-10-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 07:02:40AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:00:20AM +0200, Andrew Pimlott wrote: 2. cat a file that fills a few screens and has tabs (attached) right... was that a 24x80 screen? (it helps to know how large it was). yes

Bug#276447: xterm sometimes leaves some of the highlighted selection out of the X selection

2004-10-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Severity: minor I have found a circumstance in which I paste a selection owned by xterm, but only part of the highlighted selection gets pasted. It seems to have to do with tabs and some other factors I haven't figured out. It seems to occur more readily

Bug#276447: xterm sometimes leaves some of the highlighted selection out of the X selection

2004-10-14 Thread Andrew Pimlott
2. cat a file that fills a few screens and has tabs (attached) right... /* dtach - A simple program that emulates the detach feature of screen. Copyright (C) 2004 Ned T. Crigler This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the

Bug#237877: use DisplaySize to set dpi

2004-09-22 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:35:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:39:17PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:57:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [Are you subscribed to this list?] Do you mean to this bug? No, I haven't learned how

Bug#237877: use DisplaySize to set dpi

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:57:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [Are you subscribed to this list?] Do you mean to this bug? No, I haven't learned how to do that yet. On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:35:23PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: Also, has anyone asked the X developers for a soft version

Bug#265133: xterm: horizontal scroll wheel causes beeps

2004-08-15 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:38:15AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: It's easy enough to see if xterm is producing the beep (though a quick look through the source doesn't show me that it does). Changing the control/middle-mouse menu to use Visual Bell would modify this to a flash if xterm is

Bug#264016: fvwm: FvwmForm uses bad fonts in utf-8 locale

2004-08-13 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:08:04PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Indeed. The short forms are aliases provided by the system so that applications do not have to worry about font selection, or at least have a sane default to fall back upon. As such, the aliases should point to fonts

Bug#265133: xterm: horizontal scroll wheel causes beeps

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Severity: wishlist If you accidentally use a horizontal scroll wheel (buttons 6 and 7) in an xterm, it beeps. I am using the EmulateWheel feature of XFree86 to simulate both the vertical and horizontal wheel, and when scrolling vertically, I inevitably

Bug#265133: xterm: horizontal scroll wheel causes beeps

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:41:34PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: since it's an X library issue, it should be reported against the X libraries. (what fix do you suppose I could make to xterm to address this?) Although I inferred that Xt couldn't describe the event accurately, I didn't know who

Bug#237877: use DisplaySize to set dpi

2004-08-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
The DPI can also be set using the DisplaySize parameter in XF86Config-4. Although this seems to be semantically equivalent to the -dpi option (none of my computers auto-detect it, so I can't tell if auto-detection overrides DisplaySize, but it seems unlikely), it would be 1) easier for users to

Bug#264017: xfonts-base: don't hard-code iso8859-1 in short aliases, eg fixed

2004-08-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xfonts-base Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Severity: wishlist The traditional short font aliases such as fixed hard-code the iso8859-1 encoding. Thus, applications that use these aliases don't work in non iso-8859-1 locales. If the aliases were changed to use a * for the encoding, they would

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2004-06-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 09:09:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: That's interesting. Comparing with rxvt, I see that rxvt does give ButtonPress events as well as the KeyRelease events that xterm gives. Perhaps the answer is that xev can only see the events that the application is listening to.

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2004-06-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:39:26AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: Looking at the code, I think the answer is that in initializing the active-icon logic it modifies the flags there - affecting the regular widget as well. (This is from code dating back to before I started working on xterm). The

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2004-06-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:00:51AM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: It must be something along these lines (note that xterm also does not get motion events, which makes more sense) Doh, xev does see motion events in xterm, which seems even stranger. But it doesn't see them if I click and drag

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2004-06-06 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:00:51AM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: It must be something along these lines (note that xterm also does not get motion events, which makes more sense), but in what sense is xterm not listening to button presses? BTW, I only used xterm as an example. I originally

Bug#252214: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev: xev -id misses events

2004-06-02 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xev I discovered that xev has an -id option, which I hoped I could use to debug the behavior of an application by recording the exact events it received. However, when I run it on, say, an xterm, I don't get any

Bug#241423: xserver-xfree86: [nv] fails for GeForce FX Go5200 rev 161

2004-04-01 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: normal This card is identified as nVidia Corporation GeForce FX Go5200 rev 161, device ID 0324, on a Dell Inspiron 5150. The X server starts, but leaves me with a screen that looks like a text mode. It is mostly blank with some blocky garbage

Bug#216161: xserver-xfree86: font resolution not following the rules (?)

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew Pimlott
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-12.1 Severity: normal I recently restarted my X server and was greeted with ugly fonts. I found it is an interaction between the gsfonts-x11 package and the X server. I am copying the gsfonts-x11 maintainer, however my investigation seems to point to

Bug#197058: xserver-xfree86: [savage] XVideo broken - blue window

2003-08-24 Thread Andrew Pimlott
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:15:58PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:50:51PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: I just want to confirm that this bites me with 4.2.1-9, with a Savage/MX (in a Toshiba Tecra 8100). When I run xine with xv output, I get a blue window (xshm

Bug#197058: xserver-xfree86: [savage] XVideo broken - blue window

2003-07-23 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I just want to confirm that this bites me with 4.2.1-9, with a Savage/MX (in a Toshiba Tecra 8100). When I run xine with xv output, I get a blue window (xshm output works fine). However, I'm almost sure I didn't have the problem with 4.2.1-8. This contradicts the original report. I don't know

Bug#197058: xserver-xfree86: [savage] XVideo broken - blue window

2003-07-23 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I just want to confirm that this bites me with 4.2.1-9, with a Savage/MX (in a Toshiba Tecra 8100). When I run xine with xv output, I get a blue window (xshm output works fine). However, I'm almost sure I didn't have the problem with 4.2.1-8. This contradicts the original report. I don't know

Bug#156056: [savage] hang in miFillGeneralPoly() on Savage/MX-MV rev 17

2003-06-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I filed this bug a long time ago. I just checked my saved copy of the test page, and while it still gives mozilla fits, it doesn't cause X to crash. I am now using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-8, with the same hardware, driver, and configuration. I can close the bug if you don't see any other reason

Bug#156056: [savage] hang in miFillGeneralPoly() on Savage/MX-MV rev 17

2003-06-12 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I filed this bug a long time ago. I just checked my saved copy of the test page, and while it still gives mozilla fits, it doesn't cause X to crash. I am now using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-8, with the same hardware, driver, and configuration. I can close the bug if you don't see any other reason