Bug#232344: tetex-bin: xdvi ignores my shrinkFactor app-defaults setting

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Stefan Ulrich <stefan-ulrich.nntp@zen.co.uk> schrieb:

> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
>>> Weird one: xdvi ignores the XDvi:shrinkFactor setting in
>>> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi, whereas it appears to respect the other
>>> settings.  Any ideas why?
>
>> In my system, xdvi seemed not to ignore XDvi:shrinkFactor 
>> setting.
>
> Works for me too. Note however that the xdvi shell wrapper in
> teTeX changes XFILESEARCHPATH to point to the contents of
>
> $ kpsewhich -progname=xdvi --format='other text files' XDvi
>
> so that the XDvi appres file from the teTeX distribution is
> used instead of /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi.  So please check if
> you have a different setting in that file.

It doesn't matter, because what kpathsea puts out is just a link:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 2004-02-11 15:09 /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi -> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi

And, as I said, I can reproduce it here, but not in the sid chroot with
a much smaller set of packages installed.

So there clearly is something that goes wrong under some
circumstances. And I doubt that this has something to do with woody
vs. sid, I tend to think it's a question of the setup. Setting
xdvi*shrinkFactor in my ~/.Xresources works as expected.

Oh, perhaps it *is* woody vs. sid: My perl on the workstation is still
5.6. Is there some debugging switch for perl scripts, like "set -x" in
shell scripts?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie