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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:42:00
Message-Id: 1352889631.19645.0@numa-i
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies by Paul Hartman
1 On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch
3 > <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 > > On 11/05/2012 05:08:39 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >> Latest cairo 1.12.6 in ~arch breaks gtk+ programs in opensource
7 > >> NX/x2go again, so if you wonder why you can't start Firefox or
8 > >> Thunderbird in remote NX session, downgrade cairo on the server
9 > until
10 > >> the nx libs are patched to work properly with it.
11 > >>
12 > >
13 > > Many thanks, I've been wondering why some applications fail in a
14 > remote NX
15 > > session.
16 > >
17 > > Is there a bug report?
18 >
19 > It's an ongoing problem for a long time (years?), there are various
20 > bug reports all over the web. When new cairo releases break things
21 > again usually nx-libs gets patched some time later... until then I
22 > mask cairo :)
23 >
24
25 Hi,
26
27 unfortunately I have to use cairo-1.12.6 since 1.12.2-r4 scrambles my
28 printing of PDF files (it's completely unusable).
29
30 There might be a fix for NX at
31 http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/x2go-dev/2012-May/003962.html
32
33 There is a Debian source package at
34 http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=snapshot;h=5a640efd1002d5fadff72542afb8e00bd14bcb6e;sf=tgz
35
36 but I'd need help for using that for NX or I have to switch to X2GO.
37
38 Helmut.

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