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[Alex Lockwood <alexlockwood@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup. Okay, thanks - I need to pay more attention the bug tracker before
whinging on the list.

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:13:25PM -0500, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Am 2019-01-03 21:27, schrieb Alex Lockwood:
> > Hey, has anyone started pcbnew with nothing in ~/.config/kicad recently?
> > I just did, and loaded a project, and this is what I got:
> > 
> > https://misc.c4757p.com/wtfpcbnew.png
> > 
> > I had to manually set the canvas from inside pcbnew. Otherwise the
> > rendering was completely screwed up, everything piled on top of
> > everything in a way that I couldn't even really tell what was going on.
> > Uninitialized setting somewhere, maybe? It's entirely possible this is
> > specific to this machine, I also haven't started from clean in a long
> > time. Just curious whether anyone's testing those code paths.
> > 
> > I also had to apply this patch to keep pcbnew from segfaulting when I
> > open menus. Suppose I should probably open a proper bug for this one,
> > but I'm a bit confused by it (it seems like this should have been broken
> > for a long time for everyone, but it...isn't?)
> > 
> > diff --git a/pcbnew/pcb_base_frame.cpp b/pcbnew/pcb_base_frame.cpp
> > index 36ffbd45f..c663f8a60 100644
> > --- a/pcbnew/pcb_base_frame.cpp
> > +++ b/pcbnew/pcb_base_frame.cpp
> > @@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ void PCB_BASE_FRAME::OnUpdateSwitchCanvas(
> > wxUpdateUIEvent& aEvent )
> >      for( auto ii: menuList )
> >      {
> >          wxMenuItem* item = menuBar->FindItem( ii.menuId );
> > -        if( ii.galType == canvasType )
> > +        if( item && ii.galType == canvasType )
> >              item->Check( true );
> >      }
> >  }
> 
> I think that this is the same as [1] that John is working on.  Are you using
> GTK3?
> 
> [1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1809997