Pidgin in KDE4

[Richard Laager]

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:12 +0000, Vladimir Lushnikov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm able to confirm the error here (KDE trunk build from 4th Jan just
> after the tagging). Here's the error:
> 
> The program 'pidgin' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 3193 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> This error is very annoying, in fact - because pidgin is not the only
> application to exhibit this problem. Other applications include Xchat,
> Exaile and even TaskCoach. Xchat is a GTK application, Exaile seems to
> be using PyGTK and TaskCoach uses WxPython. This kind of problem is
> exactly the kind of thing plasma would cause (and probably shows a bug
> in Gtk or even the X server relating to ARGB visuals). For the record,
> setting XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 does nothing.
> 
> Not really sure where to file such a bug - but this is probably not
> pidgin's fault :-)

You should follow the instructions to get a backtrace. In case you're
not familiar with gdb, here's exactly what you should type:

gdb pidgin
set args --sync
break gdk_x_error
run
<wait for it to hit the breakpoint>
bt full

Richard
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