'Twas brillig, and R?mi Denis-Courmont at 17/09/10 19:42 did gyre and gimble: > > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:42:07 +0100, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > wrote: >> I wonder if perhaps it's a problem that there are no screens :s > > I doubt it is legal for an X server to have zero screens. The DISPLAY > syntax includes the screen number at the end... > > Do you check that the X11 connection was established successfully? IIRC, > xcb_connect() returns a valid pointer even when it fails: > > Correct code: > xcb_connection_t *conn = xcb_connect (display, NULL); > if (xcb_connection_has_error (conn)) > goto fail; > > Incorrect code: > xcb_connection_t *conn = xcb_connect (display, NULL); > if (conn == NULL) > goto fail; > Thanks :) Yeah I need to do the above. I've essentially handled the case now (with the patch in the other branch of this thread) but being explicit about it makes sense too :) Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
