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README: add a comment about possible xcb bug
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Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <juju@cotds.org>
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Note also that "glimagesink" window may not always start every time on
some systems.

Moreover a random runtime error can be encountered, with a message:

[xcb] Unknown request in queue while dequeuing
[xcb] Most likely this is a multi-threaded client and XInitThreads has not been called
[xcb] Aborting, sorry about that.
gst-launch-1.0: xcb_io.c:165: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `!xcb_xlib_unknown_req_in_deq' failed.

This can be worked around by exporting the variable:
export GST_GL_XINITTHREADS=1

See for example:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754198

Those gst-shadertoy scripts are distributed under the 2 clause BSD
license. See the LICENSE file for details.

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