[Users] CM errors on startup and menubar

Paul paul at claws-mail.org
Tue Feb 18 10:29:22 UTC 2025


On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:09:15 +0100
Ilja Rogoff <iljarogoff at gmx.net> wrote: 

> since a few days I am experiencing some errors when starting claws and
> when working with it:

The first thing to note is that those are not errors, they are warnings.

> The effect in claws is, that when I click on the menubar, e.g. at
> "Configuration", the menu bar opens at "File". And often after that,
> claws freezes.

I can verify that the menu bar open at File, but (after several tries) I
don't get any freezes. Instead, everything else works as normal.

> My guess is, it has to do with latest KDE6 Plasma updates?
> My system: openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE6.3, wayland

Here the same, except I use Fedora. (I use X11 normally and will continue, as
wayland still seems to have far too many problems.)

> When switching to Plasma (X11), claws works as it should, but I also
> have some errors on startup:
> 
> > claws-mail:41748): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:07:07.865:
> > gtk_style_set_background: assertion 'window != NULL' failed
> >
> > (claws-mail:41748): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 17:07:07.865:
> > gdk_window_set_background: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
> >  

Again, these are warnings and not errors and can be safely ignored.

with regards

Paul


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