Shotwell crashing instantly upon run

Lockheed · 2014-01-29 16:05:41

I tried the official version, and the -git version from AUR.

Shotwell crashes as soon as I run it. It only shows the main windows, and sometimes it won't even draw its content.
If run in terminal, it produces this:

$ shotwell 

(shotwell:7862): Gdk-WARNING **: The GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable is not supported in GTK3.
See the documentation for gdk_window_ensure_native() on how to get native windows.

Lone_Wolf · 2014-01-30 13:48:28

run

env | grep -i gdk

, if the output does show GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS then something on your system exports that environment variable.

You'll have to figure out what that something is and keep it from doing that.

There may be a program that needs that setting, but it should not set it globally.

Lockheed · 2014-01-30 15:22:41

it shows GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

How do I go about figuring out what sets that var?

I set it to 0, but shotwell still crashed.

Last edited by Lockheed (2014-01-30 15:25:46)

Lone_Wolf · 2014-01-30 20:04:15

environment vars can be set in many places, but my first guesses would be ~/.bashrc in your home, and the files in the /etcprofile.d/ folder .

If you don't see it there, you might want to do a search for files with 'GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS' .
i don't know enough bash to give you a one-liner (or multi-liner) to do that, but all good filemanagers have a search option to search for a text in a file.

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Shotwell crashing instantly upon run

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