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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

#163152 — Unreadable xmessage (sid)

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.

I have a custom .Xresources file. Removing it does not solve the issue.

I have made a capture of the window:
http://thierr26.free.fr/img/broken_xmessage.png

Does anyone experience the same issue or have any clue about what is
happening ?

I guess a very recent package upgrade caused the problem but I am
unable to tell which one. xmessage is provided by package x11-utils
which has not been upgraded recently.

I'm using xmonad as my only window manager and desktop environment. My
other applications are working properly.

Thierry

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#163156

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:55:23 +0100
Thierry Rascle <thierr26@free.fr> 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.
>
>I have a custom .Xresources file. Removing it does not solve the issue.
>
>I have made a capture of the window:
>http://thierr26.free.fr/img/broken_xmessage.png
>
>Does anyone experience the same issue or have any clue about what is
>happening ?
>
>I guess a very recent package upgrade caused the problem but I am
>unable to tell which one. xmessage is provided by package x11-utils
>which has not been upgraded recently.
>
>I'm using xmonad as my only window manager and desktop environment. My
>other applications are working properly.
>
>Thierry
>

I have seen this a couple of times. Normally, rebooting fixes it. Yes,
I know, Linux, reboot not needed. I just don't know the right commands
to make it work without the reboot.

-- 
Charlie Kravetz
Linux Registered User Number 425914
[http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html]
Never let anyone steal your DREAM.   [http://keepingdreams.com]

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#163160

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:21:17 -0700
Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:55:23 +0100
> Thierry Rascle <thierr26@free.fr> 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.
> >
> >I have a custom .Xresources file. Removing it does not solve the
> >issue.
> >
> >I have made a capture of the window:
> >http://thierr26.free.fr/img/broken_xmessage.png
> >
> >Does anyone experience the same issue or have any clue about what is
> >happening ?
> >
> >I guess a very recent package upgrade caused the problem but I am
> >unable to tell which one. xmessage is provided by package x11-utils
> >which has not been upgraded recently.
> >
> >I'm using xmonad as my only window manager and desktop environment.
> >My other applications are working properly.
> >
> >Thierry
> >  
> 
> I have seen this a couple of times. Normally, rebooting fixes it. Yes,
> I know, Linux, reboot not needed. I just don't know the right commands
> to make it work without the reboot.
> 

In this case, rebooting does not fix it.

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#163194

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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
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#163198

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

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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?

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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#163199

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L'octidi 28 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Thierry Rascle a écrit :
> 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.

This could be a stray geometry option in the X11 resources. You can try to
look at the output of xrdb -query, and compare to what happens on a blank
X11 server.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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#163211

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L'octidi 28 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Thierry Rascle a écrit :
> I don't know how to entirely blank the X11 server. Removing my

xrdb /dev/null would do the trick.

> custom .Xresources makes the output of xrdb -query almost empty but it
> does not fix the issue.
> 
> The output of xrdb -query after removing my custom .Xresources is:
> *customization: -color
> Xpdf*fileFilterStyle:   filter_hidden_files

Then it does not seem to be the cause of the problem.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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#163212

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:19:54 +0100
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:

> L'octidi 28 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Thierry Rascle a écrit :
> > 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.  
> 
> This could be a stray geometry option in the X11 resources. You can
> try to look at the output of xrdb -query, and compare to what happens
> on a blank X11 server.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I don't know how to entirely blank the X11 server. Removing my
custom .Xresources makes the output of xrdb -query almost empty but it
does not fix the issue.

The output of xrdb -query after removing my custom .Xresources is:
*customization: -color
Xpdf*fileFilterStyle:   filter_hidden_files

Regards.

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#163200

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 04:55:23PM +0100, Thierry Rascle wrote:
> 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.

BTW: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745492
rsyslog no longer by default log to /dev/xconsole

-- 
Zito

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