#1029791 yad: Assumes GTK always uses X11

Package:
yad
Source:
yad
Description:
tool for creating graphical dialogs from shell scripts
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-01-10 11:15:23 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1029791#5
Date:
2023-01-27 20:39:19 UTC
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To reproduce:

* GNOME in Wayland mode
* Run: yad --question (or probably any other options)

Expected result: no critical warnings

Actual result:

(yad:315819): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 20:37:42.045: gdk_x11_window_get_xid: assertion 'GDK_IS_X11_WINDOW (window)' failed

This might be related to #926736 which describes a feature that doesn't
work in Wayland.
#1029791#10
Date:
2025-12-03 12:07:33 UTC
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Simon, are you still able to reproduce this bug? This test case is
working for me now.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
#1029791#15
Date:
2025-12-03 13:00:09 UTC
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should be close to vanilla, in each case). An exact command-line to
reproduce it is for example

yad --question --text 'Yes?'

Note that yad still runs, apparently successfully: it is the critical
warning (which is a sign that yad or a library it uses is making
assumptions about the GDK backend) that I reported as a bug.

More specifically,
https://sources.debian.org/src/yad/0.40.0-1.1/src/main.c#L939 assumes
that the backend is X11.

     smcv
#1029791#20
Date:
2026-01-10 10:08:33 UTC
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