Comment 92 for bug 978333

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In , Olivier Fourdan (fourdan) wrote :

(In reply to EmanueL Czirai from comment #22)
> xfwm4 was sometimes(rarely) terminating on startup, for me, and I had a
> focus follows mouse or something - fix was to restart startx.
> The error is this (RenderBadPicture at the very end):
> [...]
> XError: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
> ==> XID 0x5f, Request 139, Error 143 <==
> DBG[main.c:701] main(): xfwm4 terminated
>
> I am wondering if this recent commit fixed that
> 3f1b7c02ddcbb686f6f227b09f6e3017445880bf because I seem to be unable to
> reproduce it again, although it was rare/hard to reproduce anyway. So either
> that fixed it, or it's just that rare and hard to reproduce.
> [...]
> Olivier, if you could confirm whether or not that commit fixes this, I would
> appreciate it very much, save me some time. Otherwise, if you have any
> suggestions on getting better debug for that, I'd be happy to.

Nope, none of the XError are fatal. The commit you point out is completely unrelated and purely cosmetic.

Besides, the fact that you see "xfwm4 terminated" means it died gracefully, i.e. it's not a crash.