Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-11-13 Thread paul . szabo
Please see the nxproxy bug http://bugs.debian.org/766299 about the "X Generic Event Extension" http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xextproto/geproto.html that would need to be supported also, to make dxpc useable. (I do not provide patches: nxproxy is probably "better" ... and nxproxy still has,

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-24 Thread paul . szabo
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/766299 about the same bug in nxproxy. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-21 Thread paul . szabo
I wrote: Comparing dxpc with "ssh -X -C", ssh achieves fewer bytes ... Is that because dxpc uses LZO compression, while ssh uses zlib (==gzip), and LZO is known to have better speed but provide less compression? Or is it because it would be better to forget about the intricacies of the X protoc

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Szabo
I propose the following patch to support BIG-REQUESTS. Please review. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia --- ClientChannel.C-prePSz 2007-02-03 01:25:48.0 +1100 +++

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-20 Thread paul . szabo
Comparing dxpc with "ssh -X -C", ssh achieves fewer bytes transmitted on the network. Should not dxpc be at least as good, and maybe (surely!) better? Cheers, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-16 Thread paul . szabo
I wrote: ... lack of support for BIG-REQUESTS ... working on a solution... I tried the easy "cheat" ways: - Turn off support for that extension in the X server, e.g. with some settings in xorg.conf. But that does not seem to work, e.g.: psz@como:~$ Xorg -extension BIG-REQUESTS [mi

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-15 Thread paul . szabo
I now believe the issue is caused by lack of support for BIG-REQUESTS (the Big Requests Extension) http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/bigreqsproto/bigreq.html in dxpc. (I am working on a solution... will see how that goes.) Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.us

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-13 Thread paul . szabo
Dear Jay, OK, will contact the upstream author now. (Naively I had thought you would do that...) Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-b

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-13 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Looking at the code around line 181 in ClientChannel.C where the > crash happened, seems to me that format should have one of the > values 8, 32 and maybe 16. Re-writing the code to explicitly test > for format==16 so: > > . . . > > I do not quite understand X

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-12 Thread paul . szabo
Looking at the code around line 181 in ClientChannel.C where the crash happened, seems to me that format should have one of the values 8, 32 and maybe 16. Re-writing the code to explicitly test for format==16 so: --- ClientChannel.C-prePSz 2007-02-03 01:25:48.0 +1100 +++ ClientCha

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-08 Thread paul . szabo
Grabbed dxpc sources dxpc_3.9.2.orig.tar.gz dxpc_3.9.2-3.debian.tar.gz Commented out stripcmd in install-sh so: psz@como:~/dxpc-3.9.2$ diff install-sh.orig install-sh 124c124 < -s) stripcmd=$stripprog --- > -s) # stripcmd=$stripprog and then building, running my own dxpc v

Bug#764276: dxpc: Crashes when using TeXworks

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Szabo
Package: dxpc Version: 3.9.2-3 Severity: normal When attempting to run TeXworks (an editor from the TeX distribution), dxpc fails (crashes?) with message: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Can this be fixed? Do you need some other debug out