Re: XFree86 specific extensions used in gnome?

[Mark Rae <mrae holyrood ed ac uk>]

"Haukur Hreinsson" <hawk@london.is> writes:
> I got this running keyboard-properties and mouse-properties:
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display "192.168.0.3:0.0".
> The display is an Exceed X server running on Win95.
> 
> background-properties also complains of a SIGPIPE, but does not die like the
> other two.

Interesting...

I have been having problems with background-properties as well, but only
on my laptop running the XBF neomagic server.

I had assumed it was just due to this server, which is still in
development, but it looks like it may affect other servers as well.

The actual problem seems to occur within GDK when it calls
XGetWindowAttributes for the root window (see GDB dump at end), but 
background-properties is the only program which seems to have this
effect. This is with both the 1.0.4 GDK/GTK and 0.20 gnome realease,
and the latest snapshots of both.

I shall investigate further and see whether it is GDK/GTK,
background-properties or the server that are at fault.

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(gdb) run --init
Starting program: /usr/bin/background-properties --init

** WARNING **: file ghash.c: line 150 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion "hash_table" failed.

Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
0x403b9cc4 in __write ()(gdb) where
#0  0x403b9cc4 in __write ()
#1  0x4031b9e4 in __DTOR_END__ ()
#2  0x402cdc49 in _X11TransWrite ()
#3  0x402b4c54 in _XFlushInt ()
#4  0x402b5f5e in _XReply ()
#5  0x402a34a9 in XGetWindowAttributes ()
#6  0x4025dd1f in gdk_window_foreign_new (anid=38) at gdkwindow.c:474
#7  0x804ddd6 in fill_monitor (prop_changed=0) at property-background.c:157
#8  0x804fa2c in background_apply () at property-background.c:838
#9  0x804ffb5 in background_action (req=GNOME_PROPERTY_APPLY)
    at property-background.c:1023
#10 0x400698d1 in request (cb=0x804ff84<background_action>,
    r=GNOME_PROPERTY_APPLY) at gnome-properties.c:76
#11 0x4026f659 in g_list_foreach (list=0x80684c8, func=0x400698b8 <request>,
    user_data=0x2) at glist.c:427
#12 0x40069941 in gnome_property_configurator_request_foreach (this=0x8070a18,
    r=GNOME_PROPERTY_APPLY) at gnome-properties.c:87
#13 0x804dadc in property_main (app_id=0x8057a1f "background_properties",   
    argc=2, argv=0xbffffd20) at main.c:119
#14 0x8050202 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffd20) at app-background.c:41
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	-Mark

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Mark Rae                                               T 0131 650-3265
Department of Physiology                               F 0131 650-6527
Edinburgh University                                   E Mark.Rae@ed.ac.uk