Hi, On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 16:06, Olle Viksten wrote: > I've been trying now for three days to get 1.3 to work. When I compile the > latest source it seems to work fine. But when I run the gimp-1.3 it just > exits with the message: > > The program 'gimp-1.3' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length > erro'. > (Details: serial 46 error_code 16 request_code 154 minor_code 20) > (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.) > > With a lot of tweeking I managed to compile the CVS version and got the same > result. This is unlikely a GIMP problem. It looks like either your GTK+ or X11 installation is screwed up or your X-server is buggy. Perhaps your GTK+ or X11 headers don't match the libraries that are used to link The GIMP. Sven