Gdk-ERROR with gnucash under xfce4

Bruce Miller mistercool at adelphia.net
Thu Feb 3 19:48:40 CET 2005


Brian J. Tarricone 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
...
>> Bingo!  If I disable the Composite extension, gnucash runs.
... 
> 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.

Fantastic!! That seems to work! 
[I'll of course save & backup often in the meantime...]

Thanks alot folks!

Ill post a followup to the gnucash bug report, in case that
helps others

bruce



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