From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <guix@rcdrun.com>
Cc: 23217@debbugs.gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#23217: xboing bugs
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:29:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t6ftcax.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160404184735.GC3934@protected.rcdrun.com> (Jean Louis's message of "Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:47:36 +0200")
Jean Louis (2016-04-04 21:47 +0300) wrote:
> I have encountered few bugs with xboing.
>
> xboing -debug
> XBoing - Debugging mode activated.
> XBoing - Command line parsed.
> XBoing - Display system checked.
> XBoing - Colourmap created.
> XBoing - Please wait , initialising xboing ...
> XBoing - Sound system checked.
> XBoing - Initialised colour names.
> XBoing - Creating windows ....
> XBoing - Creating windows finished.
> XBoing - Setting WM properties.
> XBoing - Changing window attributes.
> XBoing - Created all windows.
> XBoing - Error: Xlib Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>
> Please read
> `/gnu/store/k1wydpcdz5ci8c78w0xrz7hg3z09yg7j-xboing-2.4/docs/problems.doc'
> document for help.
>
> It does not run on my side. I am on foreign distribution (Debian).
Yes, I confirm that it fails.
xboing is an ancient software: the last release (2.4) dates back to
1995, so if no one is going to fix it, I think we should just remove it.
John, since you packaged xboing, are you willing to look at it?
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-09 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-04 18:47 bug#23217: xboing bugs Jean Louis
2016-04-09 8:29 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2016-04-14 5:19 ` John Darrington
2016-04-16 6:47 ` John Darrington
2016-04-18 14:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-18 20:14 ` John Darrington
2016-04-19 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-27 20:14 ` John Darrington
2016-04-28 8:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
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