invisible window when using pango-view (enable copytex by default)

[Jamie Strandboge]

Binary package hint: unity

Found this when testing lp:qa-regression-testing/scripts/test-pango1.0.py.

Reduced reproducer:
$ sudo apt-get install libpango1.0-dev

Then use pango-view to opened the attached file:
$ pango-view /tmp/test-long-paragraph.txt

pango-view opens as wide as the screen and at the top. It is not clickable or visible (though there might be some flickering) and must be forcibly killed. When fixing this bug you might try using pango-view on all the files in lp:qa-regression-testing/scripts/pango1.0 since several caused problems.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is still a problem in Oneiric.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Try enabling the copy to texture plugin. It will help this situation.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> wrote:
> This is still a problem in Oneiric.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771521
>
> Title:
>  invisible window when using pango-view
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity
>
>  Found this when testing lp:qa-regression-testing/scripts/test-
>  pango1.0.py.
>
>  Reduced reproducer:
>  $ sudo apt-get install libpango1.0-dev
>
>  Then use pango-view to opened the attached file:
>  $ pango-view /tmp/test-long-paragraph.txt
>
>  pango-view opens as wide as the screen and at the top. It is not
>  clickable or visible (though there might be some flickering) and must
>  be forcibly killed. When fixing this bug you might try using pango-
>  view on all the files in lp:qa-regression-testing/scripts/pango1.0
>  since several caused problems.
>
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>

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Sam Spilsbury

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

@Jamie: can you try and confirm that it worked?

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

@Jamie: I tried this on Oneiric and wasn't able to reproduce the issue...could you please see if it's still a problem? Thank you!

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This still affects me, and now gtk-window-decorator dies:
[11044.625840] gtk-window-deco[3966] general protection ip:7fa18652a1b5 sp:7fff9765f800 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2916.0[7fa186502000+f5000]

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

copytex is now fixed, you should be able to use abnormally large windows. distro should enable this by default.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is fixed with copytex on. After today's update it was still not on by default. When I tried to enable it in ccsm, I encountered bug #832458.

[Amal Bose (axatrikx)]

Still a problem in Oneiric bug #848237
copytex is enabled, but still the problem persists