Starting inkscape gives warning : "Gdk-CRITICAL"

[Einherjer]

Dear experts,

I encountered following issue:

When starting inkscape via command line:
(inkscape:6776): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_x11_display_get_xdisplay: assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed

Inkscape starts and is usable so I did not care until I started to use Sozi (sozi.baierouge.fr).
Each time I run the sozi script inside inkscape I get a pop up with the same warning message as above. So using sozi is very annoying, but I think it is more Inkscape or gnome related than sozi.

Running Gnome3/gnome shell on Arch linux with inkscape 0.48.5 r10040.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'm not seeing this behavior on my system. Do you ssh into your terminal before starting Inkscape, or use a VM? If you're using ssh, be sure to use the -X flag.

Do you get this assertion failure on any other gtk-based applications, like gedit or evince?

Does it still happen if you explicitly `export DISPLAY=:0` before launching inkscape?

[Einherjer (oozaru-hunter)]

This waring message appears using the terminal directly on my machine, no ssh or VM involved.

I checked your suggestions on other gtk-based applications. For evince I get the message

(evince:1251): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

For gedit there is no message at all.

Extorting the DISPLAY variable does not help.

Please let me know about any further information I can provide.

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

Can't reproduce this issue on my system. Given age of bug report and lack of response, assuming this is no longer relevant. If you can still reproduce, please reopen and provide details.