Comment # 16 on bug 1011356 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #15)
> That's how it should be done. Check if the property is available before
> trying to set it. It's GNOME, which is crashing, not the Xserver, right?

Sort off.. X seems to be sticking around but GTK fails in grabbing all kind of
properties after;

well; if you say it's correct for libinput to not be forgiving on stupid
requests, then so be it - the mutter patch is in the pipeline and will hit TW
soon enough.

Your call to decide if libinput needs work or if it's ready to close the bug -
I can see arguments in both directions somehow