From: JimDiamond@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   On 2022-06-28 at 06:03 ADT, John Forkosh  wrote:   
   > Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   >> <>   
   >> On the other hand, if I select Edit/Preferences, acroread crashes   
   >> about three seconds later. Just out of curiosity, does yours also   
   >> do that?  Jim   
   >   
   > As previously, nope, mine doesn't do that.   
   > But as it turns out, Javier's suggestion (see my second followup   
   > to him) immediately solves all my acroread problems...   
   > from the command line   
   >    GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc   
   >    export GTK2_RC_FILES   
   > and then run acroread. And I've got no edit/preferences problem, either.   
   > So try that, and then let us know whether or not that edit/preferences   
   > problem you're having is (or isn't) also fixed. Hopefully, it's all good.   
   > Very nice to have acroread available again.   
      
   I installed acroread in a "fresh" S15-64+compat32 virtual machine.   
   And, like you, acroread didn't start (*) without the GTK2_RC_FILES   
   value.  (Rather than exporting the variable as above, I just did   
       GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc acroread file.pdf   
   to get the value to acroread.)   
      
   (*) I discovered that (in the virtual machine) I only needed to use   
   that if the ~/.adobe directory (and subdirectories) have are not   
   there.  After the first run, I didn't need to use that environment   
   variable again.  But if I deleted ~/.adobe, then acroread won't run   
   without the variable being in the environment.   
      
   Now I can do some binary search to find the difference between my VM   
   and my bare-iron installations.  Not my idea of a good time, but...   
      
                                   Jim   
      
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