Bug#1030909: Unable to run xscreensaver-demo or xscreensaver-settings

[Tormod Volden]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 5:22 PM Simon McVittie wrote:
> It's not clear to me whether this is an xscreensaver issue or a GTK
> issue, so for now I'm marking it to appear in both packages' bug pages.
> If this is a GTK issue, then it's way outside my X11 knowledge, so someone
> with a deeper understanding (either on the GTK or xscreensaver side)
> will have to pick it up.

Simon, thanks a lot for investigating and upstreaming the issue.

> So I think maybe xscreensaver's own error handling is fighting with GTK's?

Actually if I just comment out the XSetErrorHandler() call in
xscreensaver_window_realize() I cannot reproduce the crash any longer
with mwm. Can those affected please try that out?

Regards,
Tormod