sciplot-bin program fails with X window error message

[Cesar Rabak]

Trying the example from the book:

$ sciplot-xyplot /usr/share/doc/sciplot/data.txt

Gives the following error:

X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request: 19 (X_DeleteProperty)
  Resource id in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request: 119
  Current serial number in output stream: 123

System is:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04

Package release:

$ apt-cache policy sciplot-bin
sciplot-bin:
  Instalado: 1.36-18
  Candidato: 1.36-18
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 1.36-18 500
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: sciplot-bin 1.36-18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-48.54~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 9 17:58:22 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-22 (169 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: sciplot
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)