Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.6-2
Severity: wishlist

Now the login screen is too wide for 800x600!

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

Could rebuilt xdm after changing --with-xft to --with-xft=no in
debian/rules and see whether it helps for various bugs you reported?

apt-get build-dep xdm
apt-get source xdm

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
dpkg -i foo.deb

Thanks,
Brice

Thanks but junior user me is not ready to compile anything. However
I'm convinced that the problem is merely that your good intentioned
effort to fill in the unbalanced lack of

38a39

in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources, ended up being put in too early in the
file. Closing the wrong #if.

This causes innocent "800" users to end up swallowing a lot of code
meant for "> 800" screens. Test it on a 800x600. It goes off the edge
of the screen!

And on >800 screens I still have to comment out
!xlogin*failFace: Helvetica-18:bold
to make the bevel problem go away.

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

No junior user is ready to modify resources files, while anybody is able
to enter 5 command lines that I gave you in the previous mail. What's
the point of reporting bugs and then refusing to help debug them?

Our good intentioned effort comes from upstream, we don't patch
Xresources files without a good reason. They broke the resources file in
1.1.6 and fixed it right after.

I wish to limit my testing role as each time I start X, there's
the snap/crackle/pop ... if my mountaintop terminal blows, I must make
a two day journey to the city to buy a new one.

Also as I use the terminal then the laptop, then the terminal, with a
two day gap between each, full testing would take many days.

By the way these lines look old:
! $Xorg: Xresources,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
! $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/Xres.cpp,v 1.6 2003/01/04 03:11:31 dawes Exp $

Any patch from minimalist me would remove all Font settings anyway.

Anyway, some of us are better at "reporting crime"... indeed, a new
concept for Debian: anonymous tipster bug reports...

Anyway, all these problems are merely cosmetic...