Gdk-ERROR with gnucash under xfce4

[Erik Harrison]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:10:27 -0500, Bruce Miller
<mistercool at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:58:21 -0500, Bruce Miller
> > <mistercool at adelphia.net> wrote:
> >
> >>I get the following error when attempting to run gnucash
> >>under xfce4, fedora core 3:
> >>
> >>=> gnucash
> >>Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >>  serial 340 error_code 8 request_code 148 minor_code 3
> >
> >
> > Isn't Gnucash still Gtk 1.2.x only? If so, there might be a problem
> > with the composite extension under X and Gdk - I believe that Gdk at
> > the time made assumptions about visuals which composite breaks.
> >
> > Do you have the compositor compiled in to xfwm? Are you running with
> > the composite extension on?
> 
> Bingo!  If I disable the Composite extension, gnucash runs.
> 
> Is there something that the gnucash people can do to
> work around it [I can add a note to the bug report].

I'm fairly certain that composite completely breaks older versions of
Gtk. Nothing that Gnucash folks can do.

Many moons ago, I proposed that someone might have some fun doing a
next iteration of Gtk 1.2. A final stable release as it were, since
it's a popular toolkit (almost as popular as Motif, on Linux and BSD),
that unfortunately is broken six ways to Sunday with regard to changes
in X or late. Of course, true to the (completely reasonable) pattern,
when I couldn't do it, then my proposal did little good.

I hope that one day someone ports Gnucash to Gtk 2.x . . .

> 
> Or is this something that can only be fixed by porting
> to Gtk 2 ? [there seems to be reluctance there....]
> 
> or just running w/o Composite ?
> [I have to choose between eyecandy and fiscal responsibility?!?!? ]
> 
> 
> > Does this actually keep Gnucash from running?
> 
> Yes, it does.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> >>Any idea what this means?
> >>Presumably this is a bug in gnucash, rather than xfce,
> >>although gnucash does run under gnome,
> >>... I'm really just fishing for any idea where this sort of
> >>error comes from, to find a workaround or prod the gnucash
> >>folks with.
> >>
> >>[there's a similar bug report, but "unconfirmed"
> >>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163053 ]
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance
> >>bruce
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