Re: wxWidgets GTK+ 3 build available
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 20:31:03 -0500, Scott Talbert wrote:
> 2) If your package uses wxGLCanvas, it won't work under Wayland. This is
> due to wxGLCanvas (currently) requiring X11 to function. This can be worked
> around by forcing the GDK backend to X11. Here's one example of how this
> has been done: [1]
If there's already a wrapper shell script or something,
setting GDK_BACKEND=x11 is OK; but I think the
preferred way to force the use of X11 even in a Wayland
environment is to make the C/C++/Python/etc. code call
gdk_set_allowed_backends("x11"), available since GTK+ 3.10 (for example
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f80663f17b2f2499b45eb4467088704c8298c385
does this).
In particular please note that setenv() and g_setenv() are not safe
to call from multi-threaded code[1] so any calls to [g_]setenv() must
usually happen as early as possible in main(), before calling into
libraries that might create another thread.
smcv
[1] unless all non-main threads guarantee not to call getenv(), but
GLib/GTK+ applications typically can't make that guarantee, because
GIO uses threads, and any thread might call g_getenv() or gettext()
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