Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies
On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/06/2012 12:42:25 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies
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? Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo and NX, forever enemies
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.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 :)
