On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 22:20:12 -0500, Drake Wilson wrote:
> Package: x11-xserver-utils
> Version: 7.5+1
> Severity: normal
>
> The executable /usr/bin/xkeystone has the following properties:
>
> - It refuses to execute at all without nickle installed, and without
> cairo-5c installed it immediately dies. Both of these are in the
> Suggests list for x11-xserver-utils, but not Recommends or
> Depends.
>
nickle and cairo-5c are only needed for xkeystone, so I think having
them in Suggests is correct.
> - Running it with both of those packages installed spits out an
> apparently-infinite stream of cruft to the terminal along the
> lines of
>
I filed bug#534582 a while back.
> [...]
> color = {red = 0, green = 0, blue = 0, alpha = 1}}, &{nichrome =
> <recursive>, container = <recursive>, configure = void func(&widget_t
> widget, rect_t geometry);, natural = void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t
> widget);, geometry = {x = 0, y = 56, width = 400, height = 14},
> extents = {x = <uninit>, y = <uninit>, width = <uninit>, height =
> <uninit>}, outline = void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t widget);, draw =
> void func(cairo_t cr, &label_t widget);, button = <uninit>, motion =
> <uninit>, key = <uninit>, label = "", font = "sans-9", color = {red =
> 0, green = 0, blue = 0, alpha = 1}}, <recursive>, &{nichrome =
> <recursive>, container = &{resize = void func(&box_t box, &contained_t
> contained);, nichrome = <uninit>, container = <recursive>, configure =
> <uninit>, natural = <uninit>, dir = horizontal = <>, items = ([4])
> [...]
>
> and opens a blank white window titled "Keystone Correction" that
> does not obviously respond to any keyboard or mouse input.
>
> - No xkeystone(1) man page is installed.
>
> This doesn't seem like an ideal situation, but it's hard to tell what
> the correct situation would be without more information. Certainly
> there should at least be a stub man page for xkeystone if it's
> installed in /usr/bin, no?
>
Yes. I never got xkeystone to work, though, so it's hard to come up
with a manpage...
Cheers,
Julien
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