Hi,
On 25.01.2013 03:55, J.L.M. wrote:
> I've Googled the error message, and it shows up nowhere. After fixing my
> configuration for Awesome 3.5, I still get an error:
>
> /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/widget/button.lua:27: cairo.Surface: not
> directly instantiable
Hm, I wonder why lua reports the error here. It should be reported in
gears.surface...
> The line in question is this:
>
> local img_release = surface.load(args.image)
Do you create any special buttons or launchers in your config? What are you
setting their image argument to? I think that something is using nil as the
image here:
$ lua -e 'require("lgi").cairo.Surface(nil)'
lua: cairo.Surface: not directly instantiable
Do you get a backtrace from awesome? Perhaps on its stderr? If you don't know
where awesome's stderr was redirected to, then the following command *might*
help you:
ls -l /proc/$(pidof awesome)/fd/2
If you don't get a backtrace (and have no idea about launchers/buttons), then
you could add this to the beginning of your config:
local orig_error = error
function error(...)
print(debug.traceback())
require("naughty").notify(text = debug.traceback())
orig_error(...)
end
Uli
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