Package: xskat
Version: 4.0-9
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: dk8kk@darc.de

Dear Maintainer,

xskat 4.0-9 only starts in a tiny xterm-like window that cannot be
enlarged anymore. There is no possibility to scale the window freely.
Image and text objects are displayed so small that it is almost
impossible to use the programme. Other programmes such as gnome-mahjongg
or gnome-sudoku, on the other hand, continue to function without
impairment.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.21-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xskat depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-6
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1

Versions of packages xskat recommends:
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.5+nmu1

xskat suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Best regards

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Am 16.04.2025 um 10:26:03 Uhr schrieb Karlheinz Geyer:

xskat 4.0-9 only starts in a tiny xterm-like window that cannot be
enlarged anymore.

IIRC this window was never resizable.

There is no possibility to scale the window freely.

IIRC this was always the case.

Image and text objects are displayed so small that it is almost
impossible to use the programme. Other programmes such as
gnome-mahjongg or gnome-sudoku, on the other hand, continue to
function without impairment.

Do you have a high DPI and set up any enlargement of text in the
settings of your desktop environment?
Also tell the monitor model.

On my system with "normal" monitors, xskat looks fine.


--
Gruß
Marco

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 04:16:33PM +0200, Marco Moock wrote:

Am 16.04.2025 um 10:26:03 Uhr schrieb Karlheinz Geyer:

xskat 4.0-9 only starts in a tiny xterm-like window that cannot be
enlarged anymore.

IIRC this window was never resizable.

There is no possibility to scale the window freely.

IIRC this was always the case.

Ack to both.

However, the "-geometry" command line option allows specifying a
different size upon startup.

Image and text objects are displayed so small that it is almost
impossible to use the programme. Other programmes such as
gnome-mahjongg or gnome-sudoku, on the other hand, continue to
function without impairment.

Do you have a high DPI and set up any enlargement of text in the
settings of your desktop environment?
Also tell the monitor model.

On my system with "normal" monitors, xskat looks fine.

Thanks @Marco, same here, tested with both the Bookworm version and the
Trixie version.

@Karlheinz, this sounds more like your display environment applying some settings than XSkat doing anything wrong by itself. However, XSkat is admittedly a rather old-fashioned program, so it can all too easily
happen that it falls through the proverbial cracks when run in any
modern display environment, unlike other programmes that have been
explicitly developed for the environment of choice (in your case Gnome,
I presume).

As for the text size, the "-font" command line option might help, using
any of the fonts listed by the "xlsfonts" command from the "x11-utils"
package. This won't change the size of the images, though. So better
check your display environment for any settings which might have an
effect, just like Marco suggests.

For now I am lowering the bug severity to "normal", as per <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities> since it doesn't
seem to be a general issue, and tag the bug according to <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags> since I don't see yet what
XSkat could/should do differently.

Cheers,
Flo

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