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Hi Tim <@U016EM8L91B> , just a quick question regarding launching magic with cairo graphics (magic -d XR). I encountered the issue where the magic and command window just pop up and disappear immediately. Any idea on this (I am running on my local PC)? I am running Ubuntu 22.04 and my magic is with version 8.3.326. Thanks a lot!

Sounds like a segfault.  Does it only occur when you do `-d XR`?  If you don't use a `-d` option, will it come up and run with X11 graphics?

Actually, less likely a segfault and more likely the X11 server throwing a fatal error.

Hint:  Run with the `-noconsole` option so that output goes directly to the terminal and doesn't get obliterated when the application closes.

Hi Tim, yes when I just do normal `magic`  everything works fine. As a matter of fact, it looks like with magic -d  only the following display types are available for this version of magic (which makes me wonder the workshop video with `magic -d XR` is outdated?): `These display types are available in this version of Magic:`
        `XWIND`
        `X11`
        `8BIT`
        `16BIT`
        `24BIT`
        `OPEN_GL`
        `OGL`
        `OPENGL`
        `NULL`
`Use '-d NULL' if you don't need graphics.`

Looks like magic wasn't compiled with cairo graphics support.

Lack of cairo support may also mean that you get a failure if you try to run with OpenGL.  Many video cards do not support off-screen rendering.  One workaround is to let cairo do the off-screen rendering, even in the OpenGL mode.  (Compile-time configuration option `--enable-cairo-offscreen`)

Try installing the `libcairo2-dev`  (or maybe `libcairo-devel`  for Ubuntu variants?) package, do a `make clean` in the magic source, and reconfigure/recompile.

Thats exactly what I just did and yes now it works with cairo! Thanks!