ok, that was a gtk bug, it has been fixed in trunk: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/patch/?id=f9d77959a4518699a96b3c85ddc18d0ff01aeac5
I backported the fix and uploaded to quantal-proposed ** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047431 Title: gedit and evince hits BadWindow XErrors when run from different "contexts" with GTK 3.6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/1047431/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs