Ghostview contols

stamcose · November 1, 2011, 6:41pm

The distribution SUSE 11.0 contained GSView but in SUSE 11.4 it has been replaced by Ghostview.

Starting Ghostview I see

http://wgpqqror.homepage.t-online.de/ghostview.png

with the main menu items

File
Page
Magstep
Orientation
Media

But clicking/double-clicking trying all mouse buttons I do not get any sub-menus with options, for example to open a certain Postscript file or to change orientation.

With one of these items selected keyboard shortcuts can be used, though!

Is there a trick somewhere or is my Ghostview simply corrupted?

martin_helm · November 1, 2011, 9:25pm

Click on the button (for example ‘File’) and do not release the mouse
button, keep it pressed the menu appears as long as the left mouse button is
not released.
Btw why do you use this stoneage old program (I am just curious)? You can
use okular in kde or evince in gnome (I do not know all the others) as are
more modern postscript viewer.

robin_listas · November 1, 2011, 10:28pm

On 2011-11-01 21:25, martin_helm wrote:
> Btw why do you use this stoneage old program (I am just curious)? You can
> use okular in kde or evince in gnome (I do not know all the others) as are
> more modern postscript viewer.

Even “gv” is more modern.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

stamcose · November 2, 2011, 4:40pm

martin_helm:

Click on the button (for example ‘File’) and do not release the mouse
button, keep it pressed the menu appears as long as the left mouse button is
not released.

Negative! I can keep the button pressed as long as I want, no menu appears. I removed and re-installed the package with YaST. As expected the same thing!

If you do not believe me, install it yourself (11.4!) and try!

But certainly “okular” (for which the controls work!) can be used instead of “ghostview”.

But for the repository 11.4 either a correct version of “ghostview” should be provided or the package should be removed with a note that “okular” with essentially the same functions should be used instead!

robin_listas · November 2, 2011, 5:23pm

On 2011-11-02 16:46, stamcose wrote:
> Negative! I can keep the button pressed as long as I want, no menu
> appears. I removed and re-installed the package with YaST. As expected
> the same thing!

You can use “gv” which is similar, but better, and works.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 2, 2011, 5:35pm

stamcose wrote:
>
> If you do not believe me, install it yourself (11.4!) and try!
>
I installed and tried it before I posted to your first question and it
worked here as I described (12.1 RC1 64bit on my test machine), so I have no
clue what is wrong with yours (I simply had to install it since I do not
remeber how programs wwork which I did not use for more than 10 years and i
think even that is not enough).
Just to be sure I installed it now on my PC in 11.4 and see the same effect
as you. Strange, but I do not think I want to investigate that in more
depth.
I think this package suffers from bit rod and should be thrown away.

But still why do you not use the newer gv which is just fine (as Carlos
suggested)?

stamcose · November 2, 2011, 8:29pm

Yes, “gv” is fine just as “okular”. But “ghostview” as provided in the repository for SUSE 11.4 is obviously faulty. “GSview” has been removed from the repository of the 11.4 release!

martin_helm · November 2, 2011, 8:53pm

stamcose wrote:

>
> Yes, “gv” is fine just as “okular”. But “ghostview” as provided in the
> repository for SUSE 11.4 is obviously faulty. “GSview” has been removed
> from the repository of the 11.4 release!
>
I have to correct that a bit, despite I said I will not investigate I could
not resist d quickly did a few checks.
On 12.1 the ghostview from the oss repo just works, in 11.4 not. But when I
run the ghostview on my 11.4 PC via ssh -X on my 12.1 machine the 11.4
ghostview also works!
So it seems either the ghostview itself is not broken in 11.4 but a glitch
with the xserver or kde in 11.4 happens here and this is resolved in 12.1 or
it is something completely different which I do not understand.

robin_listas · November 2, 2011, 9:28pm

On 2011-11-02 20:53, martin_helm wrote:
> stamcose wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, “gv” is fine just as “okular”. But “ghostview” as provided in the
>> repository for SUSE 11.4 is obviously faulty. “GSview” has been removed
>> from the repository of the 11.4 release!
>>
> I have to correct that a bit, despite I said I will not investigate I could
> not resist d quickly did a few checks.
> On 12.1 the ghostview from the oss repo just works, in 11.4 not. But when I
> run the ghostview on my 11.4 PC via ssh -X on my 12.1 machine the 11.4
> ghostview also works!
> So it seems either the ghostview itself is not broken in 11.4 but a glitch
> with the xserver or kde in 11.4 happens here and this is resolved in 12.1 or
> it is something completely different which I do not understand.

I just installed it, and it doesn’t work in my 11.4. It is enough to write
a bugzilla.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 2, 2011, 10:36pm

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I just installed it, and it doesn’t work in my 11.4. It is enough to write
> a bugzilla.
>
I agree.
Since it works in the factory snapshot for 12.1 RC1 it should be easy to
backport the solution to 11.4.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727906

robin_listas · November 3, 2011, 12:38am

On 2011-11-02 22:36, martin_helm wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> I just installed it, and it doesn’t work in my 11.4. It is enough to write
>> a bugzilla.
>>
> I agree.
> Since it works in the factory snapshot for 12.1 RC1 it should be easy to
> backport the solution to 11.4.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727906

Added a me too. Everybody interested should do as well.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

GazetaCypr · November 3, 2011, 7:37pm

My OpneSuse is 11.4 and Ghostview works in it perfectly under KDE 4.6.5

my regards

stamcose · November 5, 2011, 3:04pm

You seem to use the 64 bit version. I (we) am (are) using the 32 bit version, this is the broken one!

martin_helm · November 5, 2011, 4:04pm

GazetaCypr wrote:

>
> My OpneSuse is 11.4 and Ghostview works in it perfectly under KDE 4.6.5
>
This is not the KDE 11.4 was born with, so do us a favour and comment on the
bug report with which combination it works for you to make it easier for the
developers.
I mentioned earlier that I suspect it is not ghostview itself which might
have the problem, but the version of the xserver and/or the version of the
desktop environment. Your post supports that because it shows it working
with kde 4.6.5 while the default version of kde on 11.4 is 4.6.0.

robin_listas · November 5, 2011, 4:53pm

On 2011-11-05 15:06, stamcose wrote:
>
> You seem to use the 64 bit version. I (we) am (are) using the 32 bit
> version, this is the broken one!

I have the problem with 64 bit version and gnome.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

stamcose · November 5, 2011, 8:02pm

In my case KDE and:


mats@linux-i3xd:~> file /usr/bin/ghostview
/usr/bin/ghostview: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped

robin_listas · November 8, 2011, 12:08pm

On 2011-11-05 20:06, stamcose wrote:
>
> In my case KDE and:

PLEASE:

All those that have the problem please report in the bugzilla (727906).
Just a “me too” using kde/gnome 32/64 bit.

Saying it here is useless.

Report NOW.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 8, 2011, 1:12pm

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2011-11-05 20:06, stamcose wrote:
>>
>> In my case KDE and:
>
>
> PLEASE:
>
> All those that have the problem please report in the bugzilla (727906).
> Just a “me too” using kde/gnome 32/64 bit.
>
> Saying it here is useless.
>
> Report NOW.
>
I see my mailbox flooded with reopens and closes of the bug and will test it
this evening with twm and icewm and comment again.

robin_listas · November 8, 2011, 1:18pm

On 2011-11-08 13:12, martin_helm wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:

>> Report NOW.
>>
> I see my mailbox flooded with reopens and closes of the bug and will test it
> this evening with twm and icewm and comment again.

It is crucial that those having the problem report ASAP on the bugzilla or
it will be closed for ever without they doing anything about it because
they don’t believe there is a problem.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 8, 2011, 1:51pm

Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2011-11-08 13:12, martin_helm wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>>> Report NOW.
>>>
>> I see my mailbox flooded with reopens and closes of the bug and will test
>> it this evening with twm and icewm and comment again.
>
> It is crucial that those having the problem report ASAP on the bugzilla or
> it will be closed for ever without they doing anything about it because
> they don’t believe there is a problem.
>
I updated today as usual including todays kernel update (every 2 or 3 days I
run a zypper up). Guess what, retesting ghostview it suddenly works.