Re: Help wanted: just run gxditview on your system and click

[Robert Goulding]

I tried to do this, but gxditview was not on my system (Crostini on a
Chromebook = Debian 11 (bullseye).

So I compiled again from source, making sure --with-x was added to
configure -- but although the configure output said that x libraries were
found, gxditview was not built.

One other little glitch: the configure script said that "ln -s" does not
work, so the Makefile tried to use "ln" - which caused an error when I
tried to build. I had to manually amend the Makefile to use "ln -s" instead.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:30 AM G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I could swear that at one point not too long ago, gxditview's pop-up
> menu still worked.  But now, for me, while it pops up with a left click
> in the viewer/canvas area as it should, no menu item can be selected.
> The keyboard accelerators still work, so the only feature this actually
> inhibits is the printing dialog.[1]  But it's still an ugly wart.
>
> Does this work for anyone else?
>
> Just run "gxditview", left-click in the big yellow canvas area, and try
> to select _any_ menu item.
>
> I had feared that I somehow regressed this for groff 1.23, even though I
> knew I hadn't touched gxditview's widget management code, but I now
> suspect trouble elsewhere.  For me, the same failure occurs with groff
> 1.22.4 (Debian's version), stock 1.23.0, and Git HEAD.
>
> I compiled and installed groff 1.22.3 from source, even--same problem.
>
> Then I wanted to blame a Wayland vs. Xorg issue, mumbling something
> to myself about event capture, but for me, it's broken in both.
>
> I therefore think that either (a) I am incorrectly remembering that this
> ever worked, or (b) a recent Debian package upgrade, possibly of
> libxaw7, libxt6, or libx11-6, regressed this.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Branden
>
> [1] This can be worked around by giving that dialog pop-up a keyboard
>     accelerator, too, like capital P (lowercase p is already taken).
>


-- 
Robert Goulding
Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;
Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,
Fellow, Medieval Institute,
University of Notre Dame.