Gdk-ERROR with gnucash under xfce4

[Erik Harrison]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:51:15 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Bruce Miller 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].
> >
> > 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?!?!? ]
> 
> You can try setting XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 in your environment before
> loading gnucash.  This may allow it to work properly with composite enabled.

Duh. Thanks for pointing that out Brian.

> 
>     -b
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