[X2Go-Dev] occurrence of sluggishness in X2Go

[Arnold Krille]

On Saturday 02 June 2012 14:06:48 Mike Gabriel wrote:
> On Sa 02 Jun 2012 13:19:27 CEST Arnold Krille wrote:
> > On Friday 01 June 2012 08:32:40 Mike Gabriel wrote:
> >> We developers can now confirm this. Ubuntu users reported this
> >> earlier, Debian user can now also experience such a sluggishness.
> >> 
> >> Reproduce on Debian:
> >>    * add squeeze-backports archive to your system
> >>    * install iceweasel (esr version)
> >> 
> >> This will drag in a libcairo from squeeze backports that is very
> >> probably the cause for making some applications very slow within X2Go
> >> sessions.
> >> 
> >> Libcairo is used in all GTK applications and is a layer between GTK
> >> and the rendering backend (X11, OpenGL, ...). With some recent version
> >> of libcairo the sluggishness got introduced...
> > 
> > Would it help to mask/block the libcairo from squeeze-backports? Or test
> > with a newer version from wheezy? Maybe I can squeeze that in next
> > week...
> When blocking from squeeze-backports you block out latest
> iceweasel/icedove and many other libcairo/gtk based packages as well.

iceweasel and icedove are coming not coming from squeeze-backports here I 
think. (My co-admin added some repositories so we get all the freshest (and 
untranslated:) ice*-apps.)

> For wheezy, an installation without the slow libcairo is rather unpossible.

So the problem is any version newer than that in debian stable?

Have a nice weekend,

Arnold
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