Bug#668172: libreoffice-impress: impress doesn't show anything in presentation mode

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

found 668172 1:3.5.2~rc2-1
tag 668172 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:56:05PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>    * while preparing an OO-presentation in impress i noticed that i cannot
>      preview it anymore
>    * I hit "[F5]" to go into presentation mode
>    * seemingly nothing: image stayed and screen froze
>    * have the presentation in fullscreen mode.
> 
> i repeated the test with a fresh (empty) presentation, and had the same
> behaviour.
> interestingly enough, it still responds to keypresses, so i can exit the
> invisible presentation by hitting "[ESC]" (took me a while and a lot of SIGTERMed
> libreoffices to find that out).
> It seems like i can also navigate the pages, e.g. hitting "[SPACE]" in an empty
> 1-page presentation eventually gave me the "End of presentation" screen.
[...]
> i had the same problems with the ~rc2 package of this version.

Unsurprisingly, as the LO code is the same (rc2 == final)

> ii  libcairo2                          1.12.0-2

What happens if you either downgrade this to testings version or
disable [ ] Use hardware acceleration in the options?

It *might* just be another instance of the cairo rendering bug
with the "recent" cairo update...

Regards,

Rene