Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: important
There is a serious bug in both startx and xinit shell scripts, where client args are not preserved as user has passed them. For example, to use aewm++ window manager with custom arguments, like setting focus modes and changing default mouse-3 binding command to run rxvt instead of the default (hard coded) xterm, the command sequence would be: startx /usr/bin/aewm++ -fm sloppy \ -new2 "rxvt -ls -sl 1000 -bg white -fg black" \ -- :1 The net result is that startx doe snot preserve the ONE argument double quoted string. It calls xinit and aewm++ like: ... -new2 rxvt -ls -sl 1000 -bg white ... which results interpreting different meaning, when quotes are not there any more. The -new2 option, which controls the program launced with mouse-3, takes only "rxvt" and aewm++ reads next option as "-ls" which is not recognizable. The intention was to use: -new2 "rxvt -ls -sl 1000 -bg white -fg black" -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 4:3.3.4-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 lightweight X Window System miscel ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol-trapping ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System event recording an ii libxv1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System video extension li ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client data ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
