Re: Gdk-ERROR **:BadDrawable

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Thomas Evans <tom@23palmer.net> writes:

> I get the error:
>  Gdk-ERROR **: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
>   serial 55936 error_code 9 request_code 132 minor_code 1
> 
> when I run a few different GDK applications (gabber and gaim).
> I'm running "stable" Debian 3.0 - is this problem on all
> stable Debian-supported architectures, or is this an Alpha
> problem (or is limited to my machine?).

It's a bug in the X idle notification extension (see bug
#161072).  Unfortunately, this library is linked statically, so one
would have to fix xlibs and then recompile those applications. This
should already be fixed in unstable.

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	Falk