Joe Sislow:
The program 'SciTE' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.
Main reasons for getting X Window errors are sending oversize requests. There are various work-arounds for this in Scintilla such as breaking long strings up. Try changing SciTE version: if 1.73 is having problems then maybe an older version doesn't. One feature that has been causing some issues is translucency when attempted over a large area (such as selecting a 10,000 character line) so you could try turning off the translucent selection - selection.alpha=256. Another area to look at is how are you using SciTE that is different to others. What properties have you changed and does reverting them fix the problem? Are you writing text rather than code; using an uncommon lexer; displaying on a limited palette screen; or are you writing in Hindi? My main Linux installation is FC6 (upgraded from FC5 so may not be exactly same as raw install) so FC6 gets tested by me more than other GTK+ platforms.
Anyway, is there anything I can do to try and track down the offending lib? The only other app that's crashing occasionally is Firefox, and I don't think I'll have much luck getting help from the Mozilla folks.
SciTE should process a --sync command line option to talk to X synchronously so that failures are reported immediately which should make it possible to get a backtrace. Unfortunately --sync makes SciTE very slow. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
