gnucash and X window forwarding problem

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 24 May 2014 09:27:19 John Ralls wrote:
> On 24 May 2014, at 07:20, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > More likely it is gconfd, since the Splash Screen, the Since Last
> > Run window would all be handled with the same X11 connection as the
> > main display.  Unless the program is doing something really odd,
> > any given X11 client only makes one connection to the X11 server,
> > no matter how many windows (toplevel or otherwise) are created. 
> > That is, there is only one (lowlevel) XOpenDisplay() call
> > (somewhere in the depths of the Gtk library, probably somewere in
> > gtk_init).
> 
> Yes, one would certainly hope that GnuCash would handle everything in
> a single X11 connection. But why would gconfd need one at all?
> 
> There's only one place where XOpenDisplay() is called (in
> gdk/x11/gdkdisplay.c), but there are several places in gtk/gtkmain.c
> that lead to there. I don't have time to do the analysis in detail to
> work out all of the paths to see if more than one of them is
> exercised.
> 
I haven't studied this at all but I would look at dbus as the culprit. This is used by gsettings to 
load/store the GnuCash preferences. And I vaguely seem to remember reading something 
about it being able to work across network connections. May be totally of as well though...

Geert