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bug #41304: Octave GUI in VNC produces many Xlib warnings in the command window

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Wed 22 Jan 2014 02:14:31 PM UTC  
 
Category: GUISeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Other
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: joergBOriginator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 3.8.0
Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Fri 21 Mar 2014 02:48:16 PM UTC, comment #3:

Looks fixed to me on the stable branch now. Errors go to the shell console that started the GUI (or presumably to the desktop environment error log if started from a launcher). This will be fixed in the next stable release (3.8.2, if any) or in the 4.0 release.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Fri 21 Mar 2014 01:36:42 AM UTC, comment #2:

Is this still a problem after this changeset?

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Wed 22 Jan 2014 02:51:06 PM UTC, comment #1:

Confirming and retitling to be more explicit about the problem.

Actually I just ran another Qt application, qtconfig-qt4, in the same VNC and it generates the same Xlib warnings about BadDrawables.

Basically the existence of the warning messages looks like a Qt library problem, for them to either solve or not. What makes it especially annoying in Octave is that stderr of the GUI goes to the command window so it shows up in the GUI itself. With most GUIs, stderr would be going to the terminal or to the ~/.xsession-errors log file.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Wed 22 Jan 2014 02:14:31 PM UTC, original submission:

Dear all,

whenever I run Octave with the GUI through VNC, I get this error message all the time:

By "all the time" I mean it appears 13 times when I start Octave and every time I right-click the command window and so on. Everything still seems to work fine, but the high frequency of this message does get a little annoying over time.

After reporting this to the octave-help list, Mike Miller replied the following:

Hi J?rg, I just tried this to verify and I do see the same. These are in fact warnings from the X library, not from Octave, so the "warning off" command will not help you in this case.

I also found this thread
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/X-Error-BadDrawable-invalid-Pixmap-or-Window-parameter-9-td4657068.html
but unfortunately it does not seem to contain a solution.

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Fri 21 Mar 2014 02:48:16 PM UTCmtmillerStatusConfirmed=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 22 Jan 2014 02:51:06 PM UTCmtmillerStatusNone=>Confirmed
      SummaryOctave GUI in VNC=>Octave GUI in VNC produces many Xlib warnings in the command window

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