Gtk applications start with blank screen (Clutter 1.22.4 and GtkClutter 1.6.2)

Since a recent update in Arch Linux to gtk3/clutter/cogl, parole (built from git) segfaults when the clutter backend is enabled. Not using the "--enable-clutter" configuration parameter makes parole work again. This is probably related to clutter migration to gdk backend (from x11)- see: https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/

configure script results:

        Parole Media Player 0.8.0git.6eecaeb
        ====================================

        Installation:
        =============
        prefix: /usr
        pixmapsdir: /usr/share/parole/pixmaps
        Debug: no
        Building plugin api docs: yes
        GStreamer API version: 1.0
        GTK+ version: GTK+-3

        Optional dependencies:
        ======================
        Clutter Backend: yes
        Taglib: yes

        Plugins to build:
        =================
        Notify: yes
        System Tray icon: yes
        MPRIS2: yes

CLI output:
 (parole:16161): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?

 (parole:16161): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?

 (parole:16161): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized?

STRACE output (last bit):
 write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICA"..., 94
 (parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?
 ) = 94
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICA"..., 94
 (parole:16388): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?
 ) = 94
 write(2, "\n(parole:16388): Clutter-WARNING"..., 94
 (parole:16388): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized?
 ) = 94
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 futex(0x7faa52f62568, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0
 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0xd8} ---
 +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
 Segmentation fault (core dumped)

GDB output:
 (parole:16947): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?

 (parole:16947): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to check features. Have you initialized Clutter?

 (parole:16947): Clutter-WARNING **: Missing Cogl context: was Clutter correctly initialized?
 [New Thread 0x7fffe6d7b700 (LWP 16957)]
 [New Thread 0x7fffe8393700 (LWP 16956)]

 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0x00007ffff4eafa71 in cogl_pipeline_new () from /usr/lib/libcogl.so.20

GDB Backtrace:
 #0 0x00007ffff4eafa71 in cogl_pipeline_new () from /usr/lib/libcogl.so.20
 #1 0x00007ffff56113f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libclutter-1.0.so.0
 #2 0x00007ffff0ae6f49 in g_type_create_instance ()
    from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 #3 0x00007ffff0aca2d8 in ?? () from /u...

seen with 0.8.0-2ubuntu1 and 0.8.0+git-0~898~ubuntu15.10.1

*** Bug 11965 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reverting to the old backends fixes this, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743085

Updates to clutter (1.22.4-1) and clutter-gtk (1.6.2-1) have not fixed the issue for me. Also, I don't have an nvidia card but an Intel one. I'm currently building parole without the --enable-clutter parameter for it to work.

Forcing the x11 clutter backend via "CLUTTER_BACKEND=x11 parole" does not work either.

@Toz: What Jackson meant was switching to either the X11 or XV backend in Parole, not clutter itself.

You can do this for instance from the command line (or xfce4-settings-editor):
xfconf-query -c parole -p /video/videosink -s "xv"

Reverting clutter's backend change will also fix this issue, at least for me