On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Patrick Horgan <phorg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) If I plug it in after the gimp is already started it isn't recognized > as a tablet, i.e. doesn't appear as an extended input device that can be > configured and works only as a mouse. > 2) If I plug it in before starting the gimp, it's recognized and works > well, but if I unplug it before exiting the gimp, gimp will crash in a > little bit. > > Inkscape has exactly the same behavior including the crash. This is a known issue, and exists because there is no agreed interface for X to tell applications about appearing and disapearing devices(there is DBUS, but im not sure if X sends the type notifications needed for this use) and no mechanism in the toolkits(in this case, GTK) to handle it, because its rather new for X to have appearing and disapearing input devices. Gimp sees what devices are available on startup and wont be aware of the devices added later. When you remove a device however, gimp(or rather GTK IIRC) will try to get data from a noinexisting device and crash. I quickly looked at the issue when I encountered it myself and it was quite above ma capabilities to fix, but I dont remember the details any more. -- --Alexia P.S Sorry for the spam, Patrick.
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