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29.0.50; Can't start Emacs because of RenderBadPicture X protocol error

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 53778 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53778: 29.0.50; Can't start Emacs because of RenderBadPicture X protocol error
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:07:15 +0800

Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com> writes:

> No SystemD stuff in Slackware.

Too bad, you could locate and debug the core dump manually.

> Anyway, I did a system update and I no longer see the RenderBadPicture
> error.  I do see BadMatch errors but those has been fixed between the
> reported commit and master.

The only difference is that Emacs doesn't use XRender as eagerly as it
used to; so please set the frame parameter `alpha-background' to 0.9,
and see whether or not the crash can be reproduced.

> I won't be able to help investigate the bug any further, so feel free to
> close this bug report.

This is an actual problem and I can't see where it was solved, so please
don't close this report.

Thanks.

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