Xlib: unexpected async reply

[Ian Strascina <istrasci cs nmsu edu>]

Hello, I have a thread that draws to a GtkDrawingArea, and randomly I will 
get this error:

	Xlib: unexpected async reply 0xSomeHeXNumber

and the program "freezes" (i.e., I can't tell if the background 
computation is still going or not, but the GUI becomes unresponsive)...

I have tried to fix this using both gdk_flush() and XFlush(GdkDisplay *) 
as per  http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN492  , but I still get this error some 
times...  Note that I have also enclosed this thread's spawn call with 
gdk_threads_{enter,leave}() , respectively...

Any ideas why the flushes won't completely eradicate this problem and how 
I might go about fixing it...???  Thanks...


	- Ian

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