[Rd] X11 protocol errors after all x11 devices are closed (PR#1065)

[Thomas Vogels]

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> > x11()
> > dev.off()
> null device
>           1
> > x11()
> > plot.new()
> Warning messages:
> 1: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
> 2: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
> 
> This only happens if all x11 devices are shut down, so the X11 connection
> is restarted.  We had problems with this when the event handlers
> were changed prior to 1.3.0, and it looks as if the logic is still
> incorrect.
> 
> As far as I can see subsequent plots are correct.
> 
> Carrying on:
> 
> > dev.off()
> null device
>           1
> > x11()
> > plot.new()
> Warning message:
> X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
> 
> (only one error this time).


I see the same thing on an AIX machine with the patched R-release of
yesterday.  I've recently noticed this problem when I tried to change
the colortype.  For this you have to shutdown all devices, then I got
the error messages.  I figured this might be an "AIX" thing at
first...

Possibly related (if not, I'll file separate bug reports):

1) I cannot reset the colortype.  When I run out of colors, I used to
   be able to just shutdown all devices, then restart with
   x11(colortype=....).  Now I get:

R> x11()
R> plot(1:100,col=rainbow(100))
Error in plot.xy(xy, type, col = col, pch = pch, cex = cex, bg = bg, lty = lty,  : 
        Error: X11 cannot allocate additional graphics colors.
Consider using X11 with colortype="pseudo.cube" or "gray".
R> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
R> x11(colortype="pseudo.cube")
R> plot(1:100,col=rainbow(100))
Error in plot.xy(xy, type, col = col, pch = pch, cex = cex, bg = bg, lty = lty,  : 
        Error: X11 cannot allocate additional graphics colors.
Consider using X11 with colortype="pseudo.cube" or "gray".
In addition: Warning messages: 
1: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
2: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
3: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
R> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
R> x11(colortype="gray")
R> plot(1:100,col=rainbow(100))
Error in plot.xy(xy, type, col = col, pch = pch, cex = cex, bg = bg, lty = lty,  : 
        Error: X11 cannot allocate additional graphics colors.
Consider using X11 with colortype="pseudo.cube" or "gray".
In addition: Warning messages: 
1: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
2: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
3: X11 protocol error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 
R> dev.off()
null device 
          1 


2) Plots are not updated if the window is made visible (from being
   partially obscured) during a computation before or during the plot.
   Let's say my xterm (or emacs window) covers the north-west quadrant
   of R's x11 device window.  Then:

R> data(iris)
R> pairs(iris[,1:4])

   While pairs is drawing, I bring the device window to the front.
   All plots that were drawn by pairs will not be redrawn once pairs
   is done.  So I have to push the device window in the back, then
   bring it to the front again to force a redraw/refresh.

   This gets really annoying when you have two X11 devices open.  If
   you bring the inactive one to the front while R is busy plotting on
   the active device, the inactive one will not be redrawn/refreshed
   once plotting is done.  Just white space staring back at you...

Regards,
  -tom



R> R.version
         _                     
platform powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.1.0
arch     powerpc               
os       aix4.3.1.0            
system   powerpc, aix4.3.1.0   
status   Patched               
major    1                     
minor    3.0                   
year     2001                  
month    08                    
day      21                    
language R                     


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