On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:39, Chris Metzler wrote: > Note the second-to-last entry, and the fact that it's "built-in". > My guess is that whoever built this X server (maybe Tal and Jon, > the Libranet folks; or maybe they got it from somewhere else) > made Xrender built-in to the server, rather than a loadable > extension . . .sorta analogous to compiling a driver into the > kernel vs. making it available as a loadable kernel module. In > such a case, the experience that the gdk library complains about > RENDER regardless of whether 'load "Xrender"' is commented out > or not would make sense. > > Yes, xdpyinfo agrees with this. And I don't care that its loaded. I kinda need it for drawing some weird stuff. I just want to fix the weird glib warning being spewed to stderr everytime I start gaim or something. Its more of an irritation than a problem. Especially since rox-session has an overwhelming need to display these messages in the root window every single time they're emitted... :/ > > Know of an easy way to do this? can i apt-get install --reinstall > > some_meta_package? > > I know of no easy way to do it. Purging (after backing up your > XF86Config-4) and re-installing the components of x-window-system > would do it, I would expect. Yeah, I've pretty much come to the same conclusion. I'll budget some time for a 'quick' dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt ; apt-get remove xlibs ; dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt ; apt-get dselect-upgrade at some point over the weekend when I'm feeling masochistic I'll probably get around to it. Thanks tho. -- Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com) CARPE NOCTEM, QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO. GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/pas/Mental.asc You have mail in /home/mental/Maildir
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