Bug#769080: Please reopen and fix this bug

Jason Crain jason at inspiresomeone.us
Thu Oct 6 14:35:46 UTC 2016


On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:46:36PM +0200, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:36:39PM -0500, Jason Crain wrote:
> > It's not an evince bug.  It's a bad interaction between gtk and some window
> > managers.  I do see that the window decorations are missing in icewm on jessie,
> > but it's working on sid.  I'm suspecting that it was fixed in
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/746222, but backporting that might cause more
> > problems than it solves.
> 
> Thank you very much for the explanation.
> 
> I upgraded my libgtk-3-{0,bin,common} packages to the sid version 3.22.1,
> but I still get the bug. I guess I should also upgrade evince to the sid version, right?
> 
> Anyway I'm not going to do it because this requires upgrading way too many packages on my system,
> so I will switch to zathura or mupdf.

If you're mixing stable packages with testing or unstable packages...
please don't do that.  I'm surprised that upgrading gtk only resulted in
the bug not being fixed.  I would expect that it would make all gnome
applications stop working.



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