Debian Bug report logs - #142058
w3m-img: Overwrites other X windows

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3m-img: Overwrites other X windows

Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:14:46 -0400

Package: w3m-img
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: normal

  When I run a w3m-img-enabled w3m over an ssh connection, it seems to
overwrite random X windows with the images it displays (I can provide
screenshots if necessary)  Actually, not completely random: it's usually
the window that has focus when w3m starts to draw the images.  (rather
than the xterm that I ran w3m in)

  Daniel

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux torrent 2.4.18 #1 Mon Feb 25 16:10:17 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages w3m-img depends on:
ii  imlib1                        1.9.14-2   Imlib is an imaging library for X 
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-5       The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng2                       1.0.12-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libtiff3g                     3.5.5-6    Tag Image File Format library
ii  libungif4g                    4.1.0b1-2  shared library for GIF images (run
ii  w3m                           0.3-1      WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii  w3m-ssl                       0.3-1cia   WWW browsable pager with SSL suppo
ii  xlibs                         4.1.0-15   X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-1  compression library - runtime

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Message #10 received at 142058@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>

To: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>, 142058@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#142058: w3m-img: Overwrites other X windows

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:50:51 +0900

At Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:14:46 -0400,
Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   When I run a w3m-img-enabled w3m over an ssh connection, it seems to
> overwrite random X windows with the images it displays (I can provide
> screenshots if necessary)  Actually, not completely random: it's usually
> the window that has focus when w3m starts to draw the images.  (rather
> than the xterm that I ran w3m in)

Yes, it's known bug, but it is too difficult to fix this because of
w3m-img's implementation.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI

Message #15 received at 142058@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

To: 142058@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: w3m-img: Overwrites other X windows

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:12:12 +0200

Hi,

This old bug is indeed difficult to fix: the remote w3m-img just can't
know in which terminal it is running. The only guess it can make is that
the X focus is probably on it. And of course, if one runs

A$ ssh B
B$ sleep 10 ; w3m foo.bar.com

and switch focus to another window in the middle of the 10 seconds,
w3m-img will indeed display images on that other window instead of the
xterm.

A solution is to use recent ssh's Send Environment facility: on the
server side, in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, add AcceptEnv WINDOWID, and on
the client side, in /etc/ssh/ssh_config, or in your ~/.ssh/config, add
SendEnv WINDOWID. Now w3m-img on host B can just pick up the $WINDOWID
variable and display images in the right xterm.

Regards,
Samuel

Message #20 received at 142058@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Karsten Hilbert <karsten.hilbert@gmx.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <142058@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3m-img: same/similar problem on fb based console

Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:19:26 +0200

Package: w3m-img
Version: 0.5.1-5.1
Followup-For: Bug #142058

I am observing similar behaviour on my framebuffer console: When
switching consoles while w3m is downloading/displaying images it starts
displaying the images on whichever console I am currently switched too.

Pressing CTRL-L in a non-w3m-running console properly redraws the
console without the w3m images but as soon as w3m has downloaded the
next image it re-displays all of them in whichever console I am in.

I'd assume this is simply a missing am-I-the-active-console? check
somewhere.

Thanks
Karsten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages w3m-img depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgc1c2                    1:6.8-1      conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2              0.22.0-11    The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+ 
ii  libglib1.2                  1.2.10-17    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  w3m                         0.5.1-5.1    WWW browsable pager with excellent

w3m-img recommends no packages.

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