Bug#837072: GtkScrollbar and EmacsFixed are "drawn without a current allocation"

[Leon Meier]

Also occurs for me for emacs24 version 24.5+1-7.
Emacs clutters the xterm from where it is launched completely, which
renders xterm half-useless:

...

(emacs:12626): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkScrollbar 0x312c900 is drawn without a
current allocation. This should not happen.

(emacs:12626): Gtk-WARNING **: EmacsFixed 0xd51130 is drawn without a
current allocation. This should not happen.

...

I'm voting for raising the severity, since the bug affects several
people and the usability of another application (xterm).

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: severity -1 important

On 2016-09-18 23:39:02 +0200, Leon Meier wrote:
> I'm voting for raising the severity, since the bug affects several people
> and the usability of another application (xterm).

Agreed. Moreover, this is basically undefined behavior, possibly
with security implications (who knows...).

The same issue, bug 832077, was reassigned to libgtk-3-0, but it
will just be "fixed" by silencing the warning. As

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832077#112

says:

That warning has been widely reported for countless packages and
should be resolved by the app developer. Still, to keep people
happy until then, it will be silenced by default in GTK+ 3.22.1
(accidentally got omitted in 3.22.0)

So, the real bug is in the applications.

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