>>>>> "D" == Danny van Bruggen <danny / froukepc.dhs.org> writes: D> I'm avoiding everything pthread, since Ruby has its own threads. However, D> SDL insists on using a pthread for event handling on systems that support D> this (like Linux) - I also asked the SDL list if that can be avoided, but D> maybe it's Ruby that's causing the problem? Well, it was possible for me to quickly write the example testwm.c in ruby on a debian system. SDL was compiled with the default, which enable pthread. Guy Decoux