Subject: Fwd: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#948: Bug#948: X2Go Client fails to create xinerama.conf if screen coordinates have negative values

From: Stefan Baur <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:18:23 +0200

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Betreff: Re: [X2Go-Dev] Bug#948: Bug#948: X2Go Client fails to create
xinerama.conf if screen coordinates have negative values
Datum: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:17:44 +0200
Von: Stefan Baur <[email-masked]>
An: [email-masked]

Am 24.09.2015 um 13:14 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Obviously, the printf command is "buggy" somehow, because it
> should not interpret the "-1" in
> 
> printf "-1 2 3 4\n"
> 
> as command line parameter.
> 
> I will think about filing a bug against Debian's coreutils 
> package.

Some tools require a "--" as a "no more parameters ahead" delimiter if
you intend to use values that start with "-".

Did you try this?

printf -- "-1 2 3 4\n"

(Not on a Linux machine right now, so can't try it myself)

- -Stefan

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