Bug#819954: vim-gtk3: crashes on startup under Wayland: gdk_window_get_display: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

Mon Apr 4 09:55:34 UTC 2016

Control: tags 819954 + patch upstream

On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 at 10:03:48 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> vim appears to assume that Gtk implies X11, so until/unless that assumption
> can be disentangled, it should force the use of the X11 backend by putting
> 
>     gdk_set_allowed_backends ("x11");
> 
> before the first call to gdk_display_open(), gtk_init() or gtk_init_*().

The attached patch seems to work.

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