Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware / Upgraded to 11 - Zenity width quirk
On Wed 17 Nov 2021 at 10:35:20 (-0500), Allen Hoover wrote:
> I use a number of zenity dialogs for showing info or asking questions on
> this system. On the Deb 9 system, these dialogs displayed with a
> reasonable width/height, without explicitly setting either --width or
> --height options. However, after upgrading, I noticed the info,
> warning, and question dialogs display only about 10 text characters per
> line. For instance, zenity --info --text "The quick brown fox jumped
> over the lazy dogs", displays in 5 rows, instead of in 1 row like it
> used to before upgrading. The behaviour is the same on a fresh install
> of 11.
>
> Was curious if anyone else had issues with this, and if there is a way
> to change the default behaviour. Or do I need to go through and add
> --width and --height options in every instance where zenity is used?
Search for width in /usr/share/doc/zenity/changelog.gz and you
will see various entries concerning this (fixes, failed fixes?).
I can't judge whether the solution is there (I hadn't heard of
zenity until today).
Cheers,
David.
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