Re: Odd error running development version (2.7.2) on Awesome WM

[Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ping, anyone?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23850 is the bug I posted at my
> distro's tracker, but its not looking like a packaging error so I
> thought I'd ask here instead.
>
> Basically, when I run gimp, I get this error after startup:-
>
> (gimp:15432): Gimp-Widgets-CRITICAL **: gimp_device_info_set_device:
> assertion `(info->device == NULL && GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)) ||
> (GDK_IS_DEVICE (info->device) && device == NULL)' failed
>
> Then, if I open a new image (or existing image) and click on some tool
> (for example the text tool), once I try to click on the canvas using
> that tool I get the following error in the terminal:-
>
> gimp_display_shell_pointer_grab: gdk_pointer_grab failed with status 1
>
> From that point on, I can't select any other tools (or even the menu
> items). My WM shortcut keys still work so I can quit gimp fine.
>
> The odd thing is that on an almost identical system (both 64-bit
> Archlinux installs running awesomewm with almost identical packages
> installed) this works. I've tried the following:-
> 1. Switching WM to Gnome3. This works, I don't get the same error in
> Gnome3 with gnome-shell.
> 2. Changing gtk2 and gtk3 themes. Does not work.
> 3. Switching to a single monitor (I use dual-monitors on the affected
> system but not on the other). Does not work.
> 4. Deleting ~/.gimp-2.7. Does not work.
>
> I have not tried switching video driver to nouveau (the other
> difference between the systems is that the affected system is using
> nvidia, the other intel-based graphics).
>
> Anyone have any idea what I could try to do?
>
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