Last weekend up upgraded my system, and xosd got updated from 2.2.5-r1 to 2.2.8-r1, after this update, I noticed that the text displayed was "Wrong". I played around with the xosd-xmms plugin, and realized that the shadow mode was working, but the offset setting was "broken". The vertical offset math seems broken in particular. For example, if I use an offset of one, the outlined black text is two pixels higher/wider than the normal text, yet those two extra pixels are drawn on the bottom of the text instead of one up and one below. If I set an offset of two, now the four extra black outline horizontal lines are all piled on the bottom of the text, in other words, both the text and the outline are vertically aligned to the top, rather than centered. Is this some weird problem that only I have bumped into? The On Screen Display plugin I use on XMMS says it is version 2.2.8, and the problem exists there and on osd_cat and pretty much on every xosd scripts/programs I have lying around. Oh I tested it with the default font settings of osd_cat, and the personal font settings I use on my apps (-artwiz-aqui-medium-r-bold-*-11-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1), and this issue persists independently of which area of the screen you tell the text to appear in. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use osd_cat or the xmms xosd plugin to display some text with an offset of at least 1 and a shadow of 0. 2. 3. Actual Results: Both text and outline were vertically aligned to the top of where the text should be displayed. Expected Results: Outlined text is where it should be, but the text should appear vertically centered on it. I run a "x86" keyworded system, and the main dependencies versions would be: media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r2 gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 Emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.2 6-gentoo-r6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -finl ine-limit=600 -mfpmath=387 -ffast-math -ftracer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-a rrays -freduce-all-givs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -fi nline-limit=600 -mfpmath=387 -ffast-math -ftracer -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop -arrays -freduce-all-givs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirr or.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.seren.com/g entoo http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi acpi4linux alsa avi canna cap cjk crypt cscope cups dedicated dga dillo divx4linux dvd erandom fam fbcon flac freewnn gd gif gimpprint ginac g pm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb jabber java jikes jpeg kerberos libwww matroska mb ox mikmod mmx moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg objc oggvorbis opengl pam par se-clocks pcre pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl spell sse ssl tcltk theora threads tiff truetype unicode usagi usb vim-with- x wmf x86 xface xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Created attachment 37627 [details] (cropped) Screenshot of the issue. That's the xosd xmms plugin text with a setting of offset 1 and shadow 0, centered on the top of the screen with a vertical offset of 2 (such value does not affects the bug, already tested)
what happens if you comment the patch in the ebuild: #epatch ${FILESDIR}/${PV}-xmms-trackpos.patch
Nope... commenting out the patch did no difference. Apparently it is a bug in xosd itself. I hope more people can reproduce this bug, I'd hate to think I am the only lone soul out there for whom XOsd's outline mode is broken...
Created attachment 38276 [details, diff] Patch for correcting vertical positioning of outlined texts This patch corrects the vertical positioning of outlined texts. I have already contacted the author of xosd and sent him this patch.
fixed in 2.2.10
