[tex-live] Two tlmgr/installer gui issues: Xfce/FreeBSD

[Nikola Lečić]

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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:36:54 +0100
  in <20100203163654.GJ899 at gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
  Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
 
[...]
> Maybe your .Xdefaults of some other resources list some strange
> font as default?

I do not have that file.

> Can you tell me the output of
> 	xlsfonts -l -fn fixed

% xlsfonts -l -fn fixed
DIR  MIN  MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
- -->    0  255  some    0   22  11    2 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
- -->    0  255  some    0   22  11    2 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
- -->    0  255  some    0   22  11    2 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

> > So what an average user is supposed to do in situation like this? 
> 
> No idea. Fix the "fixed" font.
> 
> > just reported what I deemed useful info about perl-tk behaviour in
> > some standard circumstances.
> 
> As said, there are many people using this program and it didn't happen
> by now. Don't assume that it is a *default* behaviour.

All right. As I said, I hoped this could be useful. Since it isn't --
let's ignore this font question.

> > No, I deliberately arranged it to show an additional window with
> > some text. The boxes are non-writable regardless of write
> > permissions.
> 
> Isn't that the text that tells you that you don't have write
> permissions to ".../tlpkg"??? My Russian is quite rusty, but
> still ... and that would mean that all the entries are disabled.

Yes, it does say it (although not in Russian). But, as I said, the same
happens with writable tlpkg/:

  http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-Devel/translations/tlmgr-gui-FreeBSD-Xfce-20100203-b.png

Nothing can be typed in the "match pattern", nor in any other box.

Regards,
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Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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