[gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[Paul Hartman]

Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server until
the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
> Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server until
> the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.
> 

Many thanks, I've been wondering why some applications fail in a remote  
NX session.

Is there a bug report?

Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
>> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
>> Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server until
>> the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.
>>
>
> Many thanks, I've been wondering why some applications fail in a remote NX
> session.
>
> Is there a bug report?

It's an ongoing problem for a long time (years?), there are various
bug reports all over the web. When new cairo releases break things
again usually nx-libs gets patched some time later... until then I
mask cairo :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch
> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> > On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
> >> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
> >> Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server  
> until
> >> the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.
> >>
> >
> > Many thanks, I've been wondering why some applications fail in a  
> remote NX
> > session.
> >
> > Is there a bug report?
> 
> It's an ongoing problem for a long time (years?), there are various
> bug reports all over the web. When new cairo releases break things
> again usually nx-libs gets patched some time later... until then I
> mask cairo :)
> 

Hi,

unfortunately I have to use cairo-1.12.6  since 1.12.2-r4 scrambles my
printing of PDF files (it's completely unusable).

There might be a fix for NX at
http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/2012-May/003962.html

There is a Debian source package at
http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=snapshot;h=5a640efd1002d5fadff72542afb8e00bd14bcb6e;sf=tgz

but I'd need help for using that for NX or I have to switch to X2GO.

Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch
>> <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> > On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
>> >> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
>> >> Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server until
>> >> the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Many thanks, I've been wondering why some applications fail in a remote
>> > NX
>> > session.
>> >
>> > Is there a bug report?
>>
>> It's an ongoing problem for a long time (years?), there are various
>> bug reports all over the web. When new cairo releases break things
>> again usually nx-libs gets patched some time later... until then I
>> mask cairo :)
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> unfortunately I have to use cairo-1.12.6  since 1.12.2-r4 scrambles my
> printing of PDF files (it's completely unusable).
>
> There might be a fix for NX at
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/2012-May/003962.html
>
> There is a Debian source package at
> http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=snapshot;h=5a640efd1002d5fadff72542afb8e00bd14bcb6e;sf=tgz
>
> but I'd need help for using that for NX or I have to switch to X2GO.
>
> Helmut.
>

In my case, I had to mask >=1.12 to use commercial nxserver. When I
switched to x2go I could use 1.12 until the 1.12.6 release. So you may
try masking all 1.12.x versions of cairo and see if both NX and your
PDF can work at the same time.