> and the usual BadPixmap error.  So the bug behind all this is probably
> neither scroll bar nor menu related after all.  I conjecture that
> deleting the last GUI frame from a TTY started server messes up
> something we do not initialize properly when invoking another GUI client
> from it.  This conjecture is supported by the fact that when I leave a
> client frame open and fire up a new terminal, I can invoke the client
> from the new terminal as often as I want without any problems ...

> And I confirmed my conjecture here by using the attached patch.  Please
> try it.  I now start thinking that the GTK bug is not a GTK bug after
> all ...

With this patch I can't produce the badpixmap error here.