On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:42:07PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/09/10 09:22 did gyre and gimble: > > I guess it's likely some resurfacing of something similar to this. > > > > > > So I think that's all a red herring. > > Go go gadget contradict-o-tron. > > Ignore the first line, I think those bugs are likely unrelated. > > I wonder if perhaps it's a problem that there are no screens :s > > Perhaps calling: > > xcb_setup_roots_length() first and checking the value to see if it's > 0 > would avoid the problems? > > Actually in looking at this I think I can see how to fix the missing > functionality in the master version which appears to check additional > screens of the display. I'm obviously only chekcing the first, with this > patch (as did 0.9.21) but git master checks additional screens. > > I guess checking for the length is a valid thing to do. > > Are you able to reproduce the bug yourself? Haven't tried yet actually, since its the unity netbook environment for Ubuntu netbook remix, which I currently don't have installed. I'll try to reproduce, and test those patches you put into the stable queue branch to see if they help. Thanks Luke