Comment 58 for bug 7037

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:16:33 +0200
From: Marcin Owsiany <email address hidden>
To: Devin Carraway <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [xmms-xf86audio] A conflict with xosd

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[ CC-ing the bug to record your comments, hope you don't mind ]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:21:08AM -0700, Devin Carraway wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:11:37PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > Though this is not really a bug in xmms-xf86audio, it is not
> > debian-packaging-specific, so I thought you might want to know about it,
> > as the upstream author.
>=20
> Quite a bit of effort you've put into this one. Thanks for letting me
> know. Admittedly I didn't think much about the threading issue when
> knocking up the plugin; I think xosd is most nearly at fault here, but
> it's more that xosd didn't contemplate being wedged into a wierd
> situation as an xmms plugin.
>=20
> > Maybe you even have another idea how to fix it? :-)
>=20
> One way as you've discussed is to make the xosd plugin less wierd about
> its usage of X, possibly pushing it to an external client and talking to
> it over an IPC channel of some sort. Probably a simpler way is to get
> xmms to call XInitThread() itself earlier on -- maybe you can get Josip
> Rodin to patch in a hook you can use to call it before xmms starts
> making xlib calls itself. Or maybe GTK1 has some tricks buried in the
> headers you can use.
>=20
> Assuming that I understand Andrew's summary correctly, I'm surprised the
> xosd plugin is being perturbed only by xmms-xf86audio, there being
> plenty of other plugins which also make X calls (via GDK if nothing
> else).

Maybe GDK makes its own locking before calling Xlib internally?

Marcin
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