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Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid)

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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?

Thus you might confirm (or rule out) color/font issues.

regards
- -- t
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Unreadable xmessage (sid) Thierry Rascle <thierr26@free.fr> - 2016-01-16 17:00 +0100
  Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-01-16 17:30 +0100
    Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Thierry Rascle <thierr26@free.fr> - 2016-01-16 18:00 +0100
  Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-01-17 09:50 +0100
    Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Thierry Rascle <thierry.rascle@free.fr> - 2016-01-17 12:20 +0100
      Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-01-17 12:30 +0100
        Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-01-17 15:10 +0100
        Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Thierry Rascle <thierr26@free.fr> - 2016-01-17 15:10 +0100
  Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid) Václav Ovsík <vaclav.ovsik@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 13:20 +0100

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