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> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:04:01 +0800
> 
> Users of the GTK 3 build experience many, many problems.  The most
> recent such problem is bug#56869, which is definitely a bug in GTK.
> 
> Taking into account the very low quality of the GDK X11 backend, which
> is not seeing active maintenance, shouldn't the build default to some
> other toolkit such as Motif, or even better, no toolkit at all?

Why not Lucid?