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clutter-gtk package

Probles with Clutter

Asked by C. Jeffery Small

Running Xubuntu 20.04.4

I've started seeing all sorts of programs failing in the last week apparently due to clutter. This includes Geeqie and Cheese, and possibly Zoom, although I haven't tracked down the problem there. For example, when I try to start geeqie, I get:

Can't initialize clutter-gtk.
Start geeqie with the option: --disable-clutter

When I try to run cheese I get:

(cheese:1207183): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 17:54:24.432: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found.

** (cheese:1207183): ERROR **: 17:54:24.432: cheese-application.vala:89: Unable to initialize libcheese-gtk
Trace/BPT trap(coredump)

In researching the problem I ran across this article:

https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/

Now, I have no idea what clutter is/does, but it seems to now be retired. Was the package removal back-ported to earlier releases of Ubuntu? The gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0, gir1-clutter-1.0 and gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0 packages are still installed.

Any guidelines here? Thanks.

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. You can also find help with your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or https://ubuntuforums.org. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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