gdk_get_default_root_window [was: (no subject)]

[George Liaskos]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 11/30/11 11:35 AM, John Hein wrote:
>> Rene Ladan wrote at 21:56 +0100 on Nov 28, 2011:
>>  > Hi,
>>  >
>>  > if I compile the attached program with 'gcc -o testgdk `pkg-config
>>  > gtk+-2.0 --libs --cflags` testgdk.c' it fails with this assertion:
>>  >
>>  > (process:55495): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window:
>>  > assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>  >
>>  > This is on an amd64-10 system with clang kernel/world and gcc ports.
>>  > All ports are at their current version except the X.org ports for which
>>  > I defined WITHOUT_NOUVEAU to let the binary NVidia driver work.
>>  >
>>  > It also fails with the xorg-dev ports.
>>  >
>>  > Is this a bug?
>>  >
>>  > Regards,
>>  > René
>>  > --
>>  > http://www.rene-ladan.nl:8080/
>>  >
>>  > GPG fingerprint = ADBC ECCD EB5F A6B4 549F  600D 8C9E 647A E564 2BFC
>>  > (subkeys.pgp.net)
>>  > #include <stdio.h>
>>  > #include <gdk/gdk.h>
>>  >
>>  > int main(void)
>>  > {
>>  >        gdk_get_default_root_window();
>>  >        return 0;
>>  > }
>>
>> Don't you need to call gtk_init first?
>
> Not gtk_init() but gdk_init() (both will work, though):
>
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv) {
>    gdk_init(&argc, &argv);
>
>    gdk_get_default_root_window();
>    return 0;
> }
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
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Thank you guys for the "hint", you are correct.

gkt_init was buried under a LINUX ifdef in Chromium beta, that's why
this call was failing.


Regards,
George