From 29f04d913513a470bc91aff3e6c0fca699e460f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Roitzsch <mroi@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 11:16:20 +0000
Subject: calling XInitThreads() is definitely the frontend's job, because it
 has to call Xlib functions before xine to properly fill x11_visual_t

CVS patchset: 6755
CVS date: 2004/06/27 11:16:20
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 doc/hackersguide/library.sgml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/doc/hackersguide/library.sgml b/doc/hackersguide/library.sgml
index 63e550e3d..907346bc2 100644
--- a/doc/hackersguide/library.sgml
+++ b/doc/hackersguide/library.sgml
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
    will find a very easy and hopefully self-explaining xine frontend
    to give you a start.
   </para>
+  <para>
+   One important thing to note is that any X11 based xine-lib frontend
+   must call <function>XInitThreads()</function> before calling the
+   first Xlib function, because xine will access the display from
+   within a different thread than the frontend.
+  </para>
   <sect2>
    <title>Source code of a simple X11 frontend</title>
    <programlisting>
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