On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 09:11:42 +0100 <to...@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.
