Bug#648339: Regression: updated evince largely ignores mouse movement, clicks etc.

cfr ReesCF at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 17:17:26 UTC 2011


Package: evince
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: important

Evince was working just fine but now ignores virtually all input from
mouse or trackpad. Mostly, it just ignores both clicks and scrolling
etc. Occasionally, it recognises something and the document either
wobbles blurrily or randomly scrolls by about a page (even if you were
trying to use a menu, for example).

This makes it impossible to scroll through a document, highlight or
select text, or change the preferences. If I try to change the toolbar
preferences, for example, I can navigate the preference window only
using the keyboard. So I can tab between selection, help and close and I
can select close or help using return. But I cannot select an addition
for the toolbar or drag things to or from the toolbar.

I am not actually sure how I managed to open the preferences window
because generally, I can't now use the menus at all as my clicks are
ignored.

Moreover, after being made partially transparent (presumably by the
window manager), evince doesn't return to opacity even when it is once
again the frontmost, active window. 

I *think* (but am not certain) that mouse rollovers on toolbar buttons
used to show tooltips. If so, these have disappeared. (If not, I wish
there were some but that would be a wishlist item not a regression!)

I am assuming these effects are linked to recent updates to evince as
other applications are unaffected and as it worked perfectly before.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common            3.2.1-1         
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.2.1.2-1       
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.2.0-2         
ii  libc6                    2.13-21         
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.10.2-6.1      
ii  libcairo2                1.10.2-6.1      
ii  libevince3-3             3.2.1-1         
ii  libfontconfig1           2.8.0-3         
ii  libfreetype6             2.4.7-2         
ii  libgail-3-0              3.0.12-2        
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.24.0-1        
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.28.8-1        
ii  libgnome-keyring0        3.2.0-3         
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.0.12-2        
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.7-2       
ii  libnautilus-extension1a  3.0.2-4         
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.29.4-2        
ii  libsm6                   2:1.2.0-2       
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.4.4-2       
ii  libxml2                  2.7.8.dfsg-5    
ii  shared-mime-info         0.90-1          
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.4.16-1
ii  gvfs      1.8.2-2 

Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn  nautilus      3.0.2-4
pn  poppler-data  0.4.5-2
pn  unrar         <none> 

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