[Xcb] XCB's making my life difficult, can you help?

[Jiri Wackermann]

Hi --

I have a program using Xlib, developed on a MacBook with Mac OS X / BSD, 
and running perfectly OK on this one as well as on an older ppc-based 
iBook. So things are fine as long as I stay with BSD Unix and 
years-proven Xlib.
Things become different as soon as I port the program on a PC running 
openSUSE 11. I receive mysterious warnings from 'libxcb', seemingly 
harmless; but occasionally the program gets aborted because of a failed 
assertion in xcb_lock.c: 77: _XGetXCBBuffer blablabla...
What can I do? I don't intend to twiddle with the system internals, and 
not to study recent developments, either.  While I am generally 
sympathetic to efforts such as XCB, to make things lighter, more 
transparent, and (hopefully) correct --- I'd prefer to see my program 
running on the Linux machine, just for demonstration and teaching 
purpose. (Fortunately, the target machine for the program's use in the 
lab is the old Mac :-)
Can anyone help?  How can I shield myself from the wave of modernity and 
keep my old-fashioned Xlib-based programs running?

Thanks in advance
Jiri Wackermann

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Dr. Jiri Wackermann
Dept. of Empirical and Analytical Psychophysics
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Wilhelmstrasse 3a
D-79098 Freiburg i. Br. (Germany)

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