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Re: Unreadable xmessage (sid)

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On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:11:42 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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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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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