pnmixer error message: Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/18/14 10:04, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Thanks, Ed!
>
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:57:26 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/18/14 09:37, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> I have been getting this message when I start pxmixer:
>>>
>>> (pnmixer:3435): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_root_coords: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
>>>
>>> What is missing? How do I get around it? I am on a fully updated Fedora 20.
>> What desktop are you using?
> Thanks! I am using openbox as a WM: no DE. 

Oh, I've never run openbox with no DE.  I've only run KDE/openbox.

If I run just openbox and start pnmixer from the command line I don't get any error messages....but I also don't get any GUI for pnmixer.

>
>> Is pnmixer failing to run, or are you just getting these message in your terminal session?
> pnmixer has been crashing when the machine comes up upon boot. So I decided to start this from the terminal. And this is the (only) error message I get. What is the issue?

>From what I recall from your earlier messages, it was failing/crashing on a restore from hibernation.  Are you now saying it fails/crashes with this error message all of the time?


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