orrery crashing X

Martin Jansa martin.jansa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 22:15:56 CET 2010


On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 08:25:34PM -0400, Benjamin Deering wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've missed having orrery this summer.  Today I took a look at why it 
> was causing X to crash.  The crash happens when the program calls 
> gdk_draw_point for every star it displays.  I changed my copy to draw 
> all of the stars into a GdkPixbuf, then I copy the GdkPixbuf onto the 
> drawable area.
> 
> Maybe someone knows why lots of gdk_draw_points would crash X.
> 
> I think using the GdkPixbuf is faster anyways, so I'll try to add this 
> to the bug posted on the orrery project page.
> 
> Ben

Xorg crash fixed
http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=a02d3d0eefe03576c33294b4201fdbe6bde21cde

I'll apply your orrery patch too, but pitty that upstream didn't apply it
(afaik).

Regards,
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com



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