Rawhide woes: CUPS and xpdf

[Hans de Goede]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> I'm near wit's ends with two very annoying problems with rawhide currently,
> one concerning printing and the other using xpdf for presentations. Both
> are bugzilla'd.
> 
> Re: Printing: It doesn't work, period. From a x86_64 to a local paralell
> printer, or from a i386 notebook over the network (both are PostScript
> printers), the only things I can print are the testpage (via the CUPS
> control page) or text files (via lpr). If I try to print PostScript of PDF,
> CUPS claims the files get queued, are being printed, and then got printed
> normally, but nothing whatsoever does show up.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186954
> 
> Any clues? Does this work for anybody (I'd be pretty surprised if across
> the board breakage of printing didn't start a riot, so...)?

I see the same (x86_64 too!), although with some twiddling I got 
printing to work from openoffice, hey ooo is i386, I smell a rat here :)

 > Re: Presentations with xpdf. In Gnome, run "xpdf -fullscreen 
mumblefoo.pdf",
 > and get a window /with/ borders and menu etc, plus the taskbars aren't
 > hidden. In xfce the window at least fills the whole screen, but the
 > decorations remain. Also, acroread (AdobeReader_enu-7.0.5-1) [sorry 
for the
 > french] doesn't fill the screen in Gnome, but it does under xfce.
 >
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176023
 >

This is because the new Metacity causes problem with fullscreen apps, 
file a bug against Metacity I guess, or fix all the apps SDL en allegro 
games still work.

Regards,

Hans


p.s.

I've added comments about this to both bugs!