[compiz] kde-window-decorator crashes

[David Reveman]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:50 +0100, Diogo Ferreira wrote:
> Silvan Calarco wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've updated compiz to the 0.5.0 release and since my release 0.3.something I 
> > keep on seeing seldom crashes from kde-window-decorator when running it both 
> > on Xorg with AIGLX+nvidia card and Xorg+Xgl+ATI card.
> > The crashes most often happen at desktop login and when loading certain 
> > applications (kmail, kaffeine, ...).
> > The strange thing is that if I try to attach to kde-window-decorator with gdb 
> > it doesn't crash anymore! What might be the reason?
> > If anybody can tell how I can make more debugging and give you more 
> > information. The distribution is openmamba.

Could be related to this bug:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9526

I think someone reported that the workaround we have in libdecoration
doesn't always work.

I should probably go ahead and commit that fix to libXrender.

-David