Error messages to console in 6.04

Hi,

I’m getting many copies of the error message

  *** BUG ***
  In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed
  Set a breakpoint on '_pixman_log_error' to debug

on the terminal I start Kicad from.
Maybe 20-40 copies of this message in a typical session.
As far as I can tell, there’s really nothing wrong - Everything’s working OK.
I’m guessing it’s something specific to my install or graphic drivers.

Is this worth any further investigation, or should I just ignore it?
I’m running the standard 6.04 release on an AMD/Ubuntu 20.04 system.
Also - this is not new with 6.04 - I’ve seen these for earlier releases.

What happens if you switch to Fallback graphics, this looks like it might be OpenGL related

It’s most probably from GTK, the underlying UI library on Linux. There’s nothing unusual about GTK errors, they can be ignored.

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After playing around a bit, it does seem to be graphics related.
I could not get the error in Fallback mode, although I didn’t try too hard.

I’ll be using alias kicad=‘kicad 2>/dev/null’
in the future, so I can more easily ignore the messages - as eelik suggested.

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