Re: [Bug-gnubg] More or less unresolved problems before an upcoming release

[Russ Allbery]

"Christian Anthon" <address@hidden> writes:

> c2) the appearance settings crashes under Linux with 3d window
> managers. I have a work around for the problem, but I'm not even sure
> why it works. It's basically a gtkglext problem, but since that lib
> isn't actively maintained, we don't know when it will be fixed.

Would that be the same bug as:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406687

?  If so, there's some additional information in that bug from the Debian
X maintainers that may be useful, specifically:

| It looks like this isn't hardware specific but would happen with any DRI
| based 3D driver. libgtkglext1 seems to attempt rendering to GLXPixmaps
| without properly checking that they're supported (IIRC they're only
| supported as of GLX 1.3).

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>