Dear Maintainer,

F3D usually ships with default configuration files that impacts greatly how it looks and shows files with specific behavior based on the format of the file.

These configuration files are completely missing from the f3d package you are distributing, making the F3D experience incomplete.

Steps to reproduce:

 - run `f3d`
 - axis is not visible, filename hint is not visible

Best,

F3D maintainer, mwestphal

Hi Mathieu,

thanks for this bug report.

Could you please list the configuration files that you are referring,
and where they should be installed? or just point to documentation if
applicable.

Please note that Debian is currently in hard freeze phase, so this bug
will likely be fixed with the update of the new upstream version (f3d
2.x) for next Debian major release (13).

Best,

François

Hi François,

Since you rightly point that this will only be fixed with the new upstream
version, I will only give information about F3D 2.0.0

Configuration files are installed as an optional cmake component with the
following command:

cmake --install . --component configuration

By default, they will be installed into CMAKE_FULL_SYSCONFIG_DIR which
should be /etc/f3d in your case.
(They can also be installed in ${install_prefix}}/share/f3d/ by positioning
the dedicated CMake variable:
F3D_LINUX_INSTALL_DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILE_IN_PREFIX
but it should not be needed for you)

Read more about configuration files and their locations in:
https://f3d.app/doc/user/CONFIGURATION_FILE.html

By the way, there are two other optional components, sdk and mimetypes.
If i'm not mistaken, you should also install the mimetypes components for
thumbnails to work correctly.

More info here: https://f3d.app/doc/dev/BUILD.html

Please add testing for configuration files (by just checking that opening
any file shows the grid and axis for example) in the next version to make
sure this is not broken in the future.

Best,

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for all the details, I'll update the next package version
accordingly.


Best Regards,

François

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
f3d, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1034709@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Francois Mazen <mzf@debian.org> (supplier of updated f3d package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:01:48 +0200
Source: f3d
Architecture: source
Version: 3.5.0+dfsg-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Francois Mazen <mzf@debian.org>
Closes: 1034709
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 .
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Hi Mathieu,


Better late than never, the f3d Debian package now ships config files. Sorry for
this 3 years delay!

Best,
François