From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8C81381F3 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86D4921C012; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 879AFE05ED for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f181.google.com with SMTP id ge1so542463lbb.40 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:38:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=NCNhN6avrwIT7mynBguwmELtcp07k7DOocO6VxJVtk0=; b=BqMooiR/Y5UZCmm3F4gGeWLCI96iqyerYeKjnNPoUMrIU95QgYucPe2LwYVAUJfAf4 l4sZhFnOHG3XWX3EoxXJLCwlU0mbd7n2iuHYYdYpKCBsOEBn6GBnLbo0Rmui9qhW0YCF jMGqOxQadOhclp+X6n6F+kWz6mp9gDfd6BW1jBARFbISepRS6YmN+Z8TX1vFkvNO7ota j/0PIgwjY1wAFKc40oELWkomF13m5cbFoYXPzanLFr6G8l+xQ9K8lmPyq4eraN45N2SX 8xWIo5AAXaTXnjU5DrpZjdmm5NnSUndcyjNcWtqtEIcOa11nIRCJhYLZSOsPlCTo33Vr 5wpA== Received: by 10.152.103.18 with SMTP id fs18mr25410644lab.32.1352911119477; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:38:39 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.9.9 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:38:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1352889631.19645.0@numa-i> References: <1352138483.13206.0@numa-i> <1352889631.19645.0@numa-i> From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:38:19 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 06Q01-3Xwvx-awJ_FTHnCEGAv0s Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c8515aca-39f6-4c32-806c-b33fea42bb08 X-Archives-Hash: 191fa48b71932909fb4dea44fef5a1a8 On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch >> 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.