Bug#929862: x11proto-dev: core protocol spec

2019-06-01 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: x11proto-dev Version: 2018.4-4 Severity: wishlist It'd be good if x11proto-dev included the core protocol spec x11protocol.txt alongside the various extension .txt specs. It isn't hiding elsewhere is it?, in which case a cross-ref. x11proto-dev says Provides x11proto-core-dev where x11pr

Bug#909639: xdm: README.Debian on xdm-config file

2018-09-25 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.11-3 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/xdm/README.Debian README.Debian says Xresources contains X resources that are designed to be specific to sessions running under xdm. Note that this file does contain the resource entries for xdm itself -- those are

Bug#860503: libxcursor1: suggest /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme of the standard cursors

2018-01-31 Thread Kevin Ryde
Drew Parsons writes: > > But you're asking for the core theme to be offered by a core > X package, Yes. The core cursors live in some base part of the core and I think could express their availability, as a theme, somewhere there. > xcursor-themes is optional. Ah, I don't think I knew it inclu

Bug#860503: libxcursor1: suggest /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme of the standard cursors

2017-04-17 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: libxcursor1 Version: 1:1.1.14-1+b4 Severity: wishlist It'd be good to have an /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme choice which is the standard cursor font, so that's available when other packages give other themes. I struck this when adwaita-icon-theme a while ago incorporated its cursor fo

Bug#723718: suggest /etc/mailcap entry for xmore and xwud

2014-06-30 Thread Kevin Ryde
retitle 723718 suggest /etc/mailcap entry for xmore and xwud thanks xwud could also helpfully have a mailcap entry too. New proposed debian/mime file below. xwud isn't the most sophisticated image viewer, but xwd is its native format and on a minimal x11 install it could be all that's available

Bug#737915: xnest: segv on mouse entering second nest screen

2014-02-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xnest Version: 2:1.14.5-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/Xnest If Xnest is run with two screens then when the mouse pointer is moved into the second screen it dies with a segfault. Eg. Xnest -scrns 2 :1 move mouse into second screen => segv If the mouse is already in t

Bug#723718: x11-apps: /etc/mailcap entry for xmore

2013-09-18 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: x11-apps Version: 7.7+1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/xmore This is an idea for an /etc/mailcap entry for xmore, so for example see foo.txt can run xmore. I get some joy from the lines of debian/mime below which dh_installmime can copy to /usr/lib/mime/packages/x11-apps For th

Bug#657215: [PATCH videoproto] Xvproto: fix xvEncodingInfo to match actual wire protocol

2013-06-10 Thread Kevin Ryde
Julien Cristau writes: > > Both it and libXv use sz_xvEncodingInfo, which is ok. Am I right code is always supposed to use the "sz_" constants, not sizeof? Not that that would be an excuse to break anything. If in doubt I suppose could put the intended pad before, but leave the pad at the end a

Bug#657215: x11proto-video-dev: sizeof(xvEncodingInfo) vs sz_xvEncodingInfo

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Ryde
Julien Cristau writes: > > matches > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/proto/tree/src/xv.xml#n110 Ah, there you go, a second source for the layouts. (And I thought I'd embarrassed myself with the obvious or the irrelevant ...) -- "House, trophy or fish?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#657215: Acknowledgement (x11proto-video-dev: sizeof(xvEncodingInfo) vs sz_xvEncodingInfo)

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Ryde
I wrote: > > where if I'm not mistaken the two are supposed to be equal. Ah dear, oops, forget that, no, they can't always be equal. It still may be worth putting the "pad" field where it's meant to take effect. The rule is to express internal padding explicitly rather than rely on the compiler

Bug#657215: x11proto-video-dev: sizeof(xvEncodingInfo) vs sz_xvEncodingInfo

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: x11proto-video-dev Version: 2.3.1-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xvproto.h The program foo.c below with gcc 4.6.1-3 prints sizeof(xvEncodingInfo) 24 sz_xvEncodingInfo 20 where if I'm not mistaken the two are supposed to be equal. It looks like in the

Bug#629488: x11-xserver-utils: xsetroot man page -cursor_name cross ref

2011-06-10 Thread Kevin Ryde
Cyril Brulebois writes: > > please don't use maintonly. Ah that'll be reportbug's idea of "minor". I thought after that it may be easier to just list the cursor names in the xsetroot page, since a user stands a good chance of not having the library programming docs. The list isn't terribly lon

Bug#629488: x11-xserver-utils: xsetroot man page -cursor_name cross ref

2011-06-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: x11-xserver-utils Version: 7.6+2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/xsetroot.1.gz The xsetroot man page says, -cursor_name cursorname ... Refer to appendix B of the X pro- tocol for the names (except that the XC_ prefix is elided for

Bug#621702: libxres1: pixmap size "bytes_overflow" multiplier on 64-bit system

2011-04-07 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: libxres1 Version: 2:1.0.5-1 Severity: normal While nosing around the sources of libxres I saw in src/XRes.c XResQueryClientPixmapBytes() #ifdef LONG64 *bytes = (rep.bytes_overflow * 4294967295) + rep.bytes; Is that "bytes_overflow" field the high 32-bits of the size? If so

Bug#401944: libx11-dev: XDrawArc man page maths come out bad on tty

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: libx11-dev Version: 2:1.0.3-4 Severity: normal File: /usr/share/man/man3/XDrawArc.3.gz On a tty, the eqn math bits in "man XDrawArc" come out looking like [x+wi2th,y+hei2ht] or 2n for normal-angle in the range [32,2n] which makes it pretty hard to understand. Apparent

Bug#375170: xdm: README.Debian on X FAQ

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.0.4-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/xdm/README.Debian The xdm README.Debian refers to two files which don't seem to exist /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz /usr/share/doc/xbase/README.Debian -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#373870: xdm: README.Debian referring to nonexistant files

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.0.4-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/xdm/README.Debian The xdm README.Debian refers to two files which don't seem to exist /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz /usr/share/doc/xbase/README.Debian -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#373686: xbase-clients: [xkbcomp] man page showing "__mansuffix__"

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xbase-clients Version: 1:7.0.1-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/xkbcomp.1x.gz "man xkbcomp" shows xkbcomp(__mansuffix__) in the heading, which I guess is meant to have 1x or something substituted. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#373138: xdm: man page auth files location

2006-06-12 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xdm Version: 1:1.0.4-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/xdm.1x.gz The xdm man page under "DisplayManager.authDir" and under the "FILES" section shows /etc/X11/xdm as the location for the authorization files, but they seem to actually go in /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles. -- Sys

Bug#373139: xterm: README.Debian on ncurses-term

2006-06-12 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xterm Version: 210-3 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/xterm/README.Debian README.Debian refers to the ncurses-term package for the xterm terminfo definitions, but I see there's definitions in the ncurses-base package these days. Perhaps it should be referring to that one (assuming it

Bug#369461: xspecs: text file versions of specs

2006-05-29 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: xspecs Version: 1:1.0.1-2 Severity: wishlist It'd be nice if text file renditions of the specs were in the package, like it had in the past, so you can read stuff just on a text screen. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'u

Bug#300819: libx11-dev: XmbLookupString man page warning

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: libx11-dev Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Severity: minor "man XmbLookupString" produces a warning, /tmp/zmanE2taEp:218: warning: numeric expression expected (got `$') -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture:

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin Ryde
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm still waiting for an explicit recommendation. Just to chime in with my two cents worth, I'd say do nothing. Anyone fiddling with standard commands has got to confine that to their interactive shell (meaning using .bashrc or whatever), anything

Bug#169019: (startx fails to start x from console). FIX

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin Ryde
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm still waiting for an explicit recommendation. Just to chime in with my two cents worth, I'd say do nothing. Anyone fiddling with standard commands has got to confine that to their interactive shell (meaning using .bashrc or whatever), anything