Hi Gang, On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:39:07PM -0700, Gang Liang wrote: > Package: surf > Version: 2.0+git20180223-1~bpo9+1 > Severity: important > > surf 2.0 is installed from stretch-backports, and found that ^G cannot open > dmenu for input URL. I tried on two machines and both had the same issue. > > I suspect the issue is because the latest suckless-tool is not in the > backports.
Thanks for the report. I was able to reproduce it on my unstable system by installing the suckless-tools from stable (42-2). When trying to open an URL it prints the error: > usage: dmenu [-b] [-f] [-i] [-l lines] [-p prompt] [-fn font] [-m monitor] > [-nb color] [-nf color] [-sb color] [-sf color] [-v] > sh: printf: I/O error surf actually tries to run 'dmenu -p "$4" -w $1"', but the -w parameter is not yet supported in the older dmenu. Mike, for the backport it is probably sufficient to revert this change: https://git.suckless.org/surf/commit/b8b0c050354d7961edeec74e644f09a3e2887074.html Another solution would be to provide a backport of suckless-tools, but I think updating the surf backport is less effort and has less regression potential than backporting another package. Can you please take care of that? Kind regards, Reiner
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