Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg on ubuntu 11.10 crashes during viewing the analysis

[Philippe Michel]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Michael Petch wrote:

> The bug is very reproducible. At any point if you click on a position
> that has been previously analyzed in the move list, this will cause the
> mouse to stop responding.

Running gnubg with the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable set to true 
seems to help.

Googling for this finds many reports of "Ubuntu broke my application" but 
what's strange is that many are rather old and relate to Ubuntu releases 
where gnubg runs fine.

I didn't found anything obvious about fixing that in the application 
(although I don't know much about GUI programming and may not recognize 
relevant information if I saw it). Still it seems likely that something 
that used to work, and still does on other platforms, is not coded 
defensively enough for recent Ubuntu releases.