xreader no longer displays any text. The screen is a large grey area. Document opens fine and the chapter list is as expected, but no text. Even a find works and reports text found, but on a blank screen.
Simply open an epub file. As previously mentioned, this works fine, including the proper table of contents. This appears to be strictly a display problem, which makes sense as it seems to be related to a new webkit version.
Expected behavior
The epub text should be displayed properly. This is restored simply by downgrading webkit.
Distribution
Arch Linux Cinnamon 5.8.4 desktop
Package version
3.8.2
Frequency
Always
Bug description
After a webkit upgrade:
webkit2gtk (2.40.5-2 => 2.42.0-1) webkit2gtk-4.1 (2.40.5-2 => 2.42.0-1) webkitgtk-6.0 (2.40.5-2 => 2.42.0-1)
xreader no longer displays any text. The screen is a large grey area. Document opens fine and the chapter list is as expected, but no text. Even a find works and reports text found, but on a blank screen.
Downgrading webkit immediately fixes the problem:
downgrading package webkit2gtk (2.42.0-1 => 2.40.5-2) downgrading package webkit2gtk-4.1 (2.42.0-1 => 2.40.5-2) downgrading package webkitgtk-6.0 (2.42.0-1 => 2.40.5-2)
Steps to reproduce
Simply open an epub file. As previously mentioned, this works fine, including the proper table of contents. This appears to be strictly a display problem, which makes sense as it seems to be related to a new webkit version.
Expected behavior
The epub text should be displayed properly. This is restored simply by downgrading webkit.
Additional information
No response