[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#675509: octave: fltk does not work (almost)

[Francesco Potortì]

Package: octave
Version: 3.6.1-6
Severity: minor

Fltk does not work for me.  It's a strange failure mode, I would not
know where the problem is.  I do

plot (something)
graphics_toolkit fltk
close all
plot (something)

and everything looks nice: the window appears, if I plot something else
it gets updated.  But it does not go away.  If I call close, or close
all, nothing happens.  If then I plot something again, the window gets
selected, the interior becomes freezed, and the frame does not go away,
not even if I close it by pressing on the close button.  Even changing
to gnuplot (which works) and back again to fltk changes nothing: the
only way to make the window disappears seems to be closing Octave.

Before freezing, interaction with the window only works at the next
plot: resizing or pressing the G button has effect only on the next plot
command.

At one point the window apparently captured mouse and keyboard input, or
anyway I could not interact with X any more and had to restart it.  So I
am not keen on using it again unless for brief experimenting :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                             1.16.3
ii  libamd2.2.0                          1:3.4.0-2
ii  libarpack2                           3.1.0-2
ii  libatlas3gf-base [liblapack.so.3gf]  3.8.3-27
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]          1.2.20110419-2
ii  libc6                                2.13-32
ii  libcamd2.2.0                         1:3.4.0-2
ii  libccolamd2.7.1                      1:3.4.0-2
ii  libcholmod1.7.1                      1:3.4.0-2
ii  libcolamd2.7.1                       1:3.4.0-2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                      7.25.0-1
ii  libcxsparse2.2.3                     1:3.4.0-2
ii  libfftw3-3                           3.3.2-1
ii  libfltk1.1                           1.1.10-13
ii  libfreetype6                         2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1                              1:4.7.0-8
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]             7.11.2-1
ii  libglpk0                             4.45-1
ii  libgomp1                             4.7.0-8
ii  libgraphicsmagick++3                 1.3.12-1.1+b2
ii  libgraphicsmagick3                   1.3.12-1.1+b2
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3gf]      3.3.1-1
ii  liboctave1                           3.6.1-6
ii  libpcre3                             1:8.30-5
ii  libqhull5                            2009.1-3
ii  libqrupdate1                         1.1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                           4.7.0-8
ii  libumfpack5.4.0                      1:3.4.0-2
ii  octave-common                        3.6.1-6
ii  texinfo                              4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii  zlib1g                               1:1.2.7.dfsg-1

Versions of packages octave recommends:
ii  gnuplot           4.6.0-8
ii  libatlas3gf-base  3.8.3-27

Versions of packages octave suggests:
ii  octave-doc      3.6.1-6
ii  octave-htmldoc  <none>
ii  octave-info     3.6.1-6

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