Thanks for the feedback Alexander. That gives me a place to start!

Jay
On Oct 8, 2015 5:58 AM, "Alexander Larsson" <al...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On ons, 2015-10-07 at 10:21 -0400, Jay Jay Billings wrote:
> >
> > Everyone,
> > I am playing with the Broadway backend on Fedora 21 and I am getting
> > a ”can't write to client” error. It works fine with simple
> > applications like gedit, but it hangs and prints this error on more
> > complicated applications like Eclipse. Specifically, I get one good
> > click or tooltip access in Eclipse before it fails and, after a bit,
> > disconnects and prints a wall of these errors in the broadwayd shell.
> > Fedora 22 makes it three clicks before crashing. On that machine I'm
> > running gtk3.16.7.
> > As far as I could tell from the Broadway source code, this is a
> > generic error printed whenever the output stream can't be written.
> > Could anyone give me some more suggestions on how to fix this? I'm
> > willing to jump into the code too if you have some developer "getting
> > started" docs.
>
> "Can't write to client" basically means that the client process died,
> so we can't send any events to it. This problem seem to be on the
> client (that is the application, not the broadway daemon) side, so you
> have to debug the client instead.
>
> Having no idea of your particular problem I can still make a guess. It
> is likely that your more complicated apps (like eclipse) is trying to
> do something that is specific to the X11 backend, without actually
> verifying that the active backend is X11 (or verifying and bailing
> out).
>
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