Segmentation faults with show() in ipython

Glad to know you have at least a workaround, though I'd

    > still like to get this fixed. I'm sure there are people
    > who _need_ gtk for other reasons, and thus can't switch
    > backends. The fact that the bug only appears with
    > specific combinations of matplotlib version, OS and
    > connection type (as I said, an SSH login with tunneled
    > X11 doesn't show it on a system which does show it at
    > the console), makes this problem all the more
    > frustrating.

Hey, maybe I should fly out to Boulder and take a look :slight_smile:

JDH