@chasedouglas & @bregma: I've looked into this problem some more and the fix should be relatively trivial. I'll attempt to briefly describe the cause of the error, outline a simple solution, and will attach a patch that can be applied to the utouch-geis 2.2.10 source which fixes the problem for me.
The cause of the delay is that `_geis_wait_for_init` attempts to wait a full 5 seconds (GEIS_DEFAULT_INIT_TIMEOUT) or until the Geis backend is initialized. In the event of a failure, i.e., when no backend can be initialized, the 5 second waiting period is still observed. To fix this bug, we need only signal the failure of the initialization process so we can abort from `_geis_wait_for_init` immediately. To do so, I propose the following changes: 1) Add a new GeisState, GEIS_STATE_ERROR 2) Set geis->state to GEIS_STATE_ERROR whenever no backend can be initialized and we are out of fallbacks. 3) Check for geis->state == GEIS_STATE_ERROR in _geis_wait_for_init and abort. ** Patch added: "libutouch-geis-state-error.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geis/+bug/997630/+attachment/3250585/+files/libutouch-geis-state-error.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997630 Title: evince and eog broken on remote sessions (X, NX, x2go and VNC) Status in Open Input Framework Geis C API: In Progress Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “geis” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “evince” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “geis” source package in Precise: In Progress Bug description: libgrip has some troubles when accessing a Ubuntu 12.04 desktop via x2go, which uses libnx-x11. The applications (evince and eog) start up very slowly. It takes about 50 seconds to open a 900k pdf document. The following output makes me think that the problem is libgrip- related. A way to avoid the issue is running evince in preview mode (-w). $ evince (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: failed to determine device types (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. (evince:15833): GRIP-WARNING **: Failed to initialize gesture manager. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 $ apt-cache policy libgrip0 libgrip0: Installed: 0.3.4-0ubuntu1 $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 $ apt-cache policy eog eog: Installed: 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 $ apt-cache policy libnx-x11 libnx-x11: Installed: 2:3.5.0.12-0~234~oneiric1 Candidate: 2:3.5.0.12-0~234~oneiric1 Version table: *** 2:3.5.0.12-0~234~oneiric1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/x2go/stable/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/geis/+bug/997630/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
