Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid)
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:11:42 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Thierry Rascle wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > xmessage does not work properly any more on my sid system. The
> > window is displayed as expected, it has a working okay button, but
> > the actual message is not readable. It could be that the message is
> > displayed in the background color, making it invisible.
>
> One simple thing you might try is selecting the text in the xmessage
> box:
>
> - does it become visible then?
> - independently: can you paste it elsewhere?
It was even simpler than that: slightly enlarging the window makes the
message visible.
For a reason I don't understand (related to the font ?), the xmessage
window now opens with a dimension which is slightly too small and this
makes the text totally invisible and unselectable.
I can work around that by using the -geometry option in the xmessage
command line and requiring a sufficient dimension:
xmessage -geometry 700x68+300+600 "My message"
Thank to all for your help.
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