Bug#1067887: x11-utils: xmessage text area becomes smaller and smaller the more buttons are defined
Package: x11-utils
Version: 7.7+5
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: rst_77@gmx.net
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
- I need to alert users to certain actions and give them the option to pause or delay those actions for a limited period of time. Due to a wide variety of desktops
(KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, WindowMaker, ...) I have to resort to the lowest common denominator: xmessage.
- It turned out that the more buttons an xmessage box has, the smaller the text field to display the message becomes. Enlarging or reducing the box (to force a redraw) doesn't help.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
- I DID cross-check the behaviour on other distributions (opensuse 15.5, opensuse tumbleweed, ubuntu 22.04 LTS, ubuntu 24.04 LTS).
- I did NOT install 'x11-utils' from 'unstable' or 'sid' to cross-check behaviour with version 7.7+6.
- I tested with:
- xmessage -title "Reminder" -buttons Ok:0,"Snooze (+1min)":1,"Snooze (+5min)":3,"Snooze (Custom)":4 -default Ok -nearmouse -geometry 300x100 "Do not forget!"
- xmessage -title "Reminder" -buttons Ok:0,"Snooze (+1min)":1,"Snooze (+5min)":3 -default Ok -nearmouse -geometry 300x100 "Do not forget!"
- xmessage -title "Reminder" -buttons Ok:0,"Snooze (+1min)":1 -default Ok -nearmouse -geometry 300x100 "Do not forget!"
- xmessage -title "Reminder" -buttons Ok:0 -default Ok -nearmouse -geometry 300x100 "Do not forget!"
* What was the outcome of this action?
- 'xmessage' behaves the same way on suse and ubuntu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages x11-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u8
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfontenc1 1:1.1.4-1
ii libgl1 1.3.2-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u2
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u2
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1.1
ii libxcb-shape0 1.14-3
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.5-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxi6 2:1.7.10-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.1.0-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libxv1 2:1.0.11-1
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.1.4-1+b3
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2
x11-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-utils suggests:
pn mesa-utils <none>
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