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ninian

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gxmessage 3.4 displays echoed lines of text in squashed window

In the upgrade of gxmessage-2.20.0-1-x86_64 to 3.4.0-1-x86_64 something strange has happened to the way gxmessage displays lines of echoed text.
If you execute

$ cat file.txt | gxmessage -center -file -

or

$ gxmessage -center -file file.txt

then the text file is correctly displayed in a window with a width roughly based on the length of the longest line in the file.
But if you execute

echo -e "the first of many long lines of text: number one\nthe second of many long lines of text: number two" | gxmessage -center -file -

then the width of the window is far too narrow, regardless of the actual longest length of the lines echoed.

Weird, and I can only assume it's a bug introduced because of GTK2 versus GTK3 differences?

Edit: I see there's now an AUR gxmessage-gtk2 package too.

Last edited by ninian (2014-03-25 00:03:13)