Bug#669608: evince: unusable UI and crashes

[Michael Biebl]

On 20.04.2012 14:06, Valentin Lorentz wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 3.3.90-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Since latest update in Sid, evince has bugs which makes menu or printing
> unusable.

This might be related to the libgtk-3-0 update and you running evince
under KDE with apparently a GTK theme that tries to match the KDE widgets.

Which theme is that?

Could you use the default (Adwaita) theme and test again.

 More over, some actions (such as closing the "Print" dialog)
> make it crash with:
> 
> (evince:12732): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'evince' received an X
> Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
>   (Details: serial 23509 error_code 3 request_code 152 minor_code 3)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
>    variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)

Not sure if this is also related to the theme problem.

Do you use other GTK 3 apps? Do they have the same problem.

Michael

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