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

[Paul Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@××××××××××××××××.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@××××××××××××××××.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.