Why is XSetStandardProperties freezing?

[Myrosia Dzikovska]

>>
>> OK, will do that. I assume your suggestion means that (from my
>> description) this looks likely to be an OpenSuse problem and not the
>> fault of the library for not doing some essential synchronization.
>>
>
> At least it is something they have to explain :)
>
> re,
>  wh

OK, I moved the question to OpenSuse-xorg mailing list and filed the
bug report as well. The problem appears to be a bug in the XLib
version used in OpenSuse 12.1, and fixed in upstream and also in the
XLib version that ships with 11.2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xorg/2012-06/msg00019.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768775

Thanks everyone for your help.

Myrosia