Re: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence ......)

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:49 -0600, MERT TUGCU wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have been trying to solve this problem for a long time with no success. I 
> have a video application which shows the video stream, captures an image and 
> make some processing on the captured image. Therefore, I have divided the 
> screen into 4 and show video, images and so on in each part of the screen. I 
> search the internet and this problem shows up if your application is 
> multi-threaded. Since my application has to be multi-threaded (because of 
> the video stream), I am frequently getting this error and the application 
> crashes.
> Now, as far as I've seen, there are two things that could be done. One, is 
> using the gdk_threads_enter / leave() pair. Do I need to use this pair 
> whenever I need to update the GUI? Also I saw in one web page that I also 
> need to use XInitThreads() function and this might solve the problem which 
> did not.
> Can someone please give a solution to get rid of this problem? I also looked 
> to the GTK+ FAQ. I've seen that a lot of people are struggling with this 
> problem.

The FAQ has suggested answers to your problem. XInitThreads is not
relevant to your problem.