Re: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence #####)!

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com>]

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 22:07 +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
> That threads_enter/threads_leave doesn't look so bad, since I'm not
> doing a lot of gtk withing my thread. Looks like it might be the way
> to go for me.

Beware that you need to ensure that you call gdk_threads_enter() before
calling gtk_main(). That _is_ stated in the docs' examples but it's not
entirely obvious.

I wrote about it in some detail here:
http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/gnome-desktop/gtk-thread-awareness.html

AfC
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