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

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/18/14 10:34, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:18:13 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Interesting! Don't you get anything on your system tray?

Well, I'm using kdm and when I select openbox I don't actually have a "system tray".  But, I'm not an "openbox" user.  I've tried to reproduce your problem with xfce and lxde in a VM but was unable to reproduce the problem.

>
>
>>>> 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?
> Correct. It crashes now upon boot also. Has been doing this for the past few days. But, but for the error message, appears to come up "fine".
>

Could you try creating a new user and see if the problem exists for that user as well?


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