Re: window manager kills itself and respawns

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> In /tmp, on startup metacity will print the name of the log.
>
> Ali tracked it down a bit more though, there are stderr warnings, he
> thinks this change introduced it:
>
> Fri Sep  6 15:35:01 2002  Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
>
>        * gdk/gdkgc.c (gdk_gc_new_with_values): Only set
>        gc->colormap if it isn't already set. (Alex Larsson,
>        #90632)
>
> Perhaps that was it, I don't see quite what's wrong though.
>
> See if you also have warnings on stderr...
>  
I have seen this crash too.  Haven't got a debug log of it though.  It 
seems to happen occasionally when closing a window (no particular 
application), if that helps.

James.

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