Comment 14 for bug 256048

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Hew (hew) wrote :

Thanks for building that package, I've attached the log of opening the pdf and watching it stick on "Loading...". Hopefully it is of some use :-)

I just noticed that this is caused by moving the mouse while evince is starting up! There seem to be two loading stages: The first has the whole application greyed out and "Loading..." (while opening the document), and the second has a blank page displayed with "Loading..." (the actual bug). If you keep your mouse still while the document is opening in the first stage, it will open successfully. If you move the mouse even one pixel while it is loading in this first stage, the blank page will appear and still be "Loading...". This is most easily reproducible with a large document that takes a while to load, but you can also wave your mouse madly on small documents to trigger it. (The more you concentrate / don't move for testing, the harder it is to find the bug! Typical :-P)