Re: Slang (Sid)

[Alexander Hvostov <vulture@aoi.dyndns.org>]

On Fri, 11 May 2001 20:16:42 -0400 (EDT)
Jon Eisenstein <jeisen@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Is there something seriously wrong with slang now (rather, for a few
> months now), or is it just happening on the three computers I've installed
> Debian on? If what I'm describing isn't slang, I apologize, but there's
> still a problem.
> 
> Anything that uses what I think is the slang frontend (e.g. debconf,
> apt-listchanges, querybts...) has major display problems, most troubling
> that the buttons (Ok, Cancel, etc) look awful and make it hard to tell
> what you're selecting.
> 
> If I press enter on, for example, Ok, it looks like the following:
> 
> 	Ok 			(original button)
> 	 Ok			(presumably the button being clicked)
> 
> If it's just me, does anybody know how I might fix it? If it's
> Debian-wide, I would just like to know that it is a known problem and is
> presumably being worked on.

I have the same problem with any slang applications. It recurs on every
Debian system I maintain, which is 4.

Regards,

Alex.