Bug#309226: Re: Bug#309226: xnest: crashes when window is shaded or a different virtual desktop is selected
Marc Haber wrote:
> I can still reproduce the crash in a KDE session. HOWTO:
>
> Xnest :1 (empty display)
> konsole --display :1 (a konsole showing up)
> in the konsole: while true; do date; sleep 1; done
>
> then shade the window and see Xnest crashing immediately.
>
> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage)
> Serial number of failed request: 3515
> Current serial number in output stream: 3515
>
As a workaround, could you try Xephyr instead of Xnest? Xephyr is
recommended nowadays, and seems to have less bugs.
Brice
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