The program 'pitivi' received an X Window System error.

Binary package hint: pitivi

on startup, running pitivi crashes before opening with the following error,
"The program 'pitivi' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 46 error_code 3 request_code 3 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
"

on running pitivi --sync, the program appears to run and respond but occasionally produces error outputs similar to above without crashing, the full functionality of running with --sync has only been superficially checked.