On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:51:37 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote: > >> Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does >> not allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact >> example used in the FAQ. > > I actually tried with --textbox, and the rc-file given in the > example: > > Xdialog --rc-file fixed-font.rc --textbox file 0 0 > > That doesn't work,
How bad :-( Then it can be something worth to report to the Xdialog developer... ouch, hold on: *** http://xdialog.free.fr/ Remarks regarding some distributions quirks: - Recent Debian distributions seem to have utterly broken fonts for GTK+ v1.2. Please, do NOT report bugs dealing with weird/badly looking fonts under Debian: this is NOT an Xdialog bug but rather deals with how screwed up is Debian's fonts system. - Still about Debian: given how rigid is the (IMHO stupid) Debian policy about packaging, and how stubborn are the Debian maintainers, I do NOT and will NEVER support any Debian-related problem. If you are using a Debian (or a Debian-based) distribution and think you found a bug, please, first recompile Xdialog from the sources available on this site before concluding it's a bug in the genuine Xdialog. I will NOT bother with investigating bugs introduced with Debian's private patches which are unapproved by me. *** Wow... not a Debian lover here :-P I'm afraid you are on your own unless you are using the upstream sources and still can reproduce the error. > and after that, I discovered that the font name in > the rc-file is not used, i.e. if you put a wrong font name, you get > no error message. > > idem if you give a non existing rc file. Now, doing more tests, I > discovered that the following command is accepted: without any error > message: !!! > > Xdialog --anything --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0 > idem with > Xdialog anything bla_bla --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0 > > That seems really crazy! Yes, that behaviour is a bit of nonsense. > do you have the same behaviour? > > Xdialog --version > Version: 2.3.1 You must be still on Lenny, right? I use "zenity" (to drawn small GTK GUI dialogs) and "dialog" for ncurses, I'm not using Xdialog which BTW, looks like it has been removed from Debian repositories. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jt1jj6$3jh$5...@dough.gmane.org
