okular search in pdf results in blank page

[disperato]

After an upgrade some month ago, I'm having this annoyance with okular.

It opens pdf files, but when the find (ctrl+F) function is launched, all that it shows is a blank page.
Please note that this behaviour takes place with every searchable pdf file (i.e. not a pdf made of image collection, i.e. pdf files somewhat ocr), thus asking for a pdf sample may prove to be pretty pointless.

Here i'm posting two screenshots (before and after ctrl+F "high", just a word being for sure on the first page) plus info on version and dependencies, log of okular message (okular lanuched on terminal and output captured with script).

Please note that this problem seems unrelated with xfce theme used (it's a dark one in the screenshot, xfce-dusk). It's the same if I use any another theme (dark or clear).

Thanx in avance

Screenshot of first page before ctrl+F
[img]http://www.zimagez.com/miniature/screenshot-010313-131357.php[/img]

Screenshot of first page after ctrl+F (word searched: high)
[img]http://www.zimagez.com/miniature/screenshot-010313-132009.php[/img]

[kernelOfTruth]

what desktop environment, window manager, compositor

and graphics card + driver are you running ?


what xorg-server version ?
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Hardcore Gentoo Linux user since 2004

[disperato]

xfce4-4.10.0
xfwm4-4.10.0 (USE: xcomposite)
xfwm4-themes-4.10.0
xorg-server-1.13.1
libXcomposite-0.4.3-r1
compositeproto-0.4.2

btw with compositor either enabled or disabled (in xfce4 settings windows manager tweaks) is the same result, i.e. the same faulty okular behaviour on searches.

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev a2)
(MCP78S)
nvidia-drivers-310.32
nvidia-settings-310.19
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[kernelOfTruth]

once I booted back into Gentoo I'll try it, too with xfwm4

compiz-fusion works fine for me

graphics card is a Evergreen, ATI Radeon 5850 HD



the first thing that comes to mind is the nvidia driver:


- try making the window smaller (alt + f5) and re-maximize (alt + f10)

- try a different window manager (e.g. kwin --replace) if available to see if that also happens with it (also try it with opengl and xrender acceleration backends)

- maybe later I'll come up with more


let's see what these adjustments result in
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Hardcore Gentoo Linux user since 2004

[disperato]

tried with kwin and dwm: just the same (along with some collateral trouble while switching between WMs)

There must be something in the underlying dependencies of okular, some (tiny?) package that acts badly when find changes the background of the found word.

For this reason, even before to writing the first post, I already re-emerged all the x11-libs stuff in okular dependencies, up to level 2.
No success. Can't be I'm the only one on Earth with this problem!

Evince works well, though. Temporary switching on that.
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