Axel Dürrbaum schrieb am Freitag, den 06. Juni 2003: > In the "Edit" dialogs of some drawing objects the font in all input fields > (e.g. Width and Depth) is invisible. This applies to
Tobias Kramer schrieb am Donnerstag, den 07. August 2003:
> How to reproduce the bug:
>
> -draw an arcline in an empty xfig file
> -use edit to change the attributes like line-width/depth
> BUG: the values are not visible
> (caveat: may depend on your window-manager/display size [see below])
>
> How to work around the bug:
>
> 1. method:
> Now do a resizing of the Xfig-Edit panel (interestingly
> until the topmost symbol/icon for the Mode (i.e. the arcline-icon) is
> separated from the Done/Apply/Cancel buttons
> right below it).
> The values suddenly appear.
>
> 2. method:
> I see this behavior only with the KDE-Window manager (kwin). Using i.e.
> fvwm2 doesnt have this problems and shows the values for all
> sizes/geometries of the Edit-Panel.
>
> 3. method:
> On screens with a very high resolution (>1024x768) of course
> the space allocated for the edit panel can be much larger. Problem also
> disappears.
>
> So, for me it seems this bug is related to the X-Window/X11 geometry
> management of the Edit-Panel.
>
> I don't know if XFIG/ the toolkit XAW/ the Window manager is to blame.
> However it is really annoying since it stops you from being able to edit
> files without much work.
I was a little inactive with this bug report since it doesn't affect
me personally. This may depend on the fact, that I still use fvwm2.
Could you please check, whether you are still able to reproduce this
issue with current xfig version?
Otherwise I hope we can close this bug report now...
Tschoeeee
Roland
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