xscreensaver and xorg problems

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:24:54PM -0500, Net Llama! took 29 lines to write:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Can you tell me the software versions you were using on FC2 vs. FC3,
> > i.e. xfree/xorg gcc glibc xscreensaver and perhaps gtk+?
> 
> I don't have any FC2 boxes any more, sorry.   You can check and see what
> shipped with FC2 thoguh. FC3 has:
> 
> xorg-6.8.1
> gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3
> glibc-2.3.3-74
> gtk+-1.2.10-33
> gtk2-2.4.13-9
> 
> > When I first encountered this problem, the cure was to compile gtk+
> > with a particular version of gcc., but then the problem returned even
> > on that version of gcc/gtk+.
> 
> That doesn't make any sense seeing as how xscreensaver isn't a gtk app.

Not necessarily. xscreensaver-demo is usually linked to libgtk:

$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-demo | grep -i gtk
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d06000)

Kurt
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