On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:18:22 +0100 Andrew Benton <a...@benton.eu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:49:31 +0100 > Simon Geard <delga...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > > > That one links to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47266 > > which makes it sound like this is an X server bug, which the new cairo > > release triggers. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a clear idea of > > what that bug is yet... > > Good news everyone! Patch for xorg-server-1.12.0 which fixes the problem! > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=59437 > Sorry, I was a bit over enthusiastic there. It makes the problem a bit less noticeable so most things are quite usable. One problem I have found which the above patch doesn't fix is with Libre Office. When viewing a powerpoint, I can see the slides and edit them and so on but when I try to view it full screen (like if you were giving a powerpoint for real) nothing changes on the screen. If I try to click anywhere on the screen it's unresponsive unless I keep clicking and then I get the black screen with "click to exit presentation..." Ie, it seems that it is giving the presentation but I can't see it. I think it is trying to render a full screen overlay using cairo and it fails to render it on a system with cairo-1.12.0. On an otherwise identical system that has cairo-1.10.2 it works as it should, I get the slide show. I don't know if this is the same bug as the one above (in xorg server?) or if this is another bug in cairo-1.12.0, but it's not a bug in Libre Office which works as expected with cairo-1.10.2. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
