[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#334368: VTK viewer from octaviz does not resize sanely

[Jeff Abrahamson]

Package: octaviz
Version: 0.4.0-10
Severity: important


This is perhaps a vtk bug, but I am unable to file it intelligibly
against vtk.

In octave, execute one of the octaviz demos, say

    octave:1> ClipCow

Resize the resulting window to be larger than the displayed figure, a
factor of three seems to be adequate.  The window then starts resizing
itself and flashing with repaints.  The only way I have found to
interact with anything else is to iconize the window, which seems to
stop the viewer process.

This only happens when the viewer window is resized from one of the
upper corners.

I'm using sawfish, btw, in case it matters:

ii  sawfish        1.3+cvs2005070 a window manager for X11

The current theme is gradient.

After this octaviz resize problem, sawfish and octave both exhibit
strange behaviors.  In octave a repeated call to open a viewer window
(ClipCow, for example) fails silently.  In sawfish the window focus is
not properly indicated (all windows have title bars with inactive
highlighting) and the middle mouse button pop-up menu on the desktop
no longer appears until I execute (restart) in sawfish-client.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages octaviz depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.0.1-2      GCC support library
ii  libice6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.6-7      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvtk4                   4.4.2-6        Visualization Toolkit - A high lev
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxt6                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  octave2.1                 2.1.69-1       GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m

octaviz recommends no packages.

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