[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#641185: tk8.5: Various Tk-based programs only display menu text in upper-left corner of screen

[Ingvar Mattsson]

Package: tk8.5
Version: 8.5.10-1
Severity: important

Various Tk-based programs only display menu text in the top-left of the 
screen. This is quite obvious with a tear-away menu, where it's easy to 
move it in or out of the zone where text is displayed. It does not seem
to depend on the general font chosen and programs written using other
toolkits seem to work fine.

I first spotted the issue in exmh and considered reporting it against
that package, but some quick experimentation shows tha it pops up in
at least tkmib and the "widget" demo provided with perl-tk.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tk8.5 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2.2  generic font configuration library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.2-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.2.0-2    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxss1                       1:1.2.1-1  X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  tcl8.5                        8.5.10-1   Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8

Versions of packages tk8.5 recommends:
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   244-2      X terminal emulator

tk8.5 suggests no packages.

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