Re: Problems with new pango, atk or gtk2+ under Mac OS X

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:54:44PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:17:39PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > the update of either "atk", "pango" or "gtk2+" today made GTK+ applications
> > unusable on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard system (NetBSD/amd64 5.0_STABLE
> > works fine). XChat needs *minutes* (on a Mac Pro) before the first
> > window appears and uses 100% CPU during that time. When the window
> > appears and takes forever to render the GUI which then reacts very,
> > very slowy. XChat is still using 100% at that point of time. The
> > same happens with "gmp3info".
> 
> It seems to the new "pango" package which causes this problem.
> If I downgrade to the old "pango" package GTK+ applications
> work properly again.

We are not the only ones affected by this:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21624
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593240

It seems the only way to solve this is to downgrade "pango".

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/