Bug#668190: libreoffice-impress: Slideshow doesn't work any more in 3.5.2

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 668190 grave
retitle 668190 libreoffice-impress: Slideshow doesn't work any more with cairo 1.12
reassign 668190 xorg-server
forcemerge 668172 668190
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 05:02:04PM +0200, Mourad Jaber wrote:
> The screen is becoming un responsive and come back to normal if I hit escape
> key !
[...]
> 
> It is a new regression, because it was working well even on the experimental
> versions (3.5.1).

But not caused by libreoffice but by you upgrading libcairo2 to sids version.

> I tried to remove .config/libreoffice but without any changes in that
> behaviour...
> 
> As a workaround, I manage to make it works well after disabling the hardware
> acceleration !

That is correct. See e.g. also http://bugs.debian.org/668172 handling *EXCATLY*
this problem.

([ ] Use hardware acceleration basically is [ ] use cairo)

> ii  libcairo2                          1.12.0-2

Downgrade this.

Regards,

Rene