What version of Ubuntu is this happening on? And what hardware and graphics driver/s? If it is ocurring with the radeon driver it might be solved by this upstream commit to xf86-video-ati
author Jerome Glisse 2012-11-14 17:15:47 (GMT) committer Jerome Glisse 2012-11-15 17:07:11 (GMT) commit 53af6aa99dfb67b5223c28d5129a79694165048d tree 755367c6ee44895f1c5296ff802c502f680041b9 radeon: avoid segfault when pixmap exceed GPU capabilities We might get a request for a pixmap/drawable that is too big for GPU capabilities in the dri2 get buffer path. In face of such things just return NULL to dri2 get buffer request. The GL driver should then use something like transparent black to avoid something too ugly on the screen. Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862455 Title: Applications that create absurdly large windows can break the desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/862455/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
