nedit crashes Xserver under Mandriva 2007

Eddy De Greef degreef at imec.be
Thu Oct 5 12:07:43 CEST 2006


Eddy De Greef wrote:
> Eric Bouyoux wrote:
>> I just installed a new Mandriva Linux 2007 version but nedit crashes the
>> Xserver (it unlog me from my current X session). It was working fine
>> with previous version of Mandriva (and Xorg).
> 
> This is probably because transparancy is enabled in your X-server 
> (32-bit visual).
> 
> You can try other visuals. With 'xdpyinfo' you can see the ones that are 
> available (please send us the output of that command).
> 
> To start NEdit with a specific visual, use this:
> 
>   nedit -xrm "*visualID: <name or id number of the visual>"
> 
> Eg: nedit -xrm "*visualID: HiColor"
>  or nedit -xrm "*visualID: 0x23"
> 
> Just make sure that you pick a visual that is not 32-bit and please let 
> us know if it helps.

Another option is this:

   XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 nedit

(Does this work?)

Eddy



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