At commit 4752d6922.  Running on wayland.  Upgrade issue with the notification plugin on a switch from claws/gtk2 3.17.8 on X.

My old gtk2/X claws installation had long had the notification plugin global hotkey enabled.  When I switched to live-git-gtk3-native-wayland claws, all the loaded plugins unregistered and I had to load plugins again.  While my other previous plugins loaded fine, attempting to load the notification plugin was segfaulting claws and sometimes (not always) taking kde/plasma/wayland (which like claws isn't entirely stable on wayland yet) with it.  Syslog said the segfault was in libX11.

After a bit of googling (on duckduck, FWIW) I found the GDK_BACKEND=x11 method to force claws/gtk3 to run in X mode on wayland, which allowed a successful load of the notification plugin.  After loading the plugin in X mode I was able to disable the global hotkeys in the notification plugin config and quit.

I could then run claws in wayland mode with the notification plugin enabled.


So the notification plugin, global-hotkeys module, needs to check that it's running in X mode before attempting to register the hotkey on X.  Because if it's in wayland mode it's at best not going to work, and could well trigger a segfault, as it was doing for me.

Unfortunately I'm not a dev so I can't provide a proper patch, but I can at least hope with that level of specificity it's reproducible and will be an easy fix for those who do have that skill.